Sunjeev Sahota Quotes

#1. Narinder squeezed the giant bottle of washing-up liquid until her fingers touched through the plastic. All she got was bubbles and farts.

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#2. Nothing in their lives was working and the city lay there roaring its indifference. What a world.

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#3. Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.

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#4. I think you have to be fair, Mr Greatrix. To treat people as kindly as you'd want those closest to you to be treated. I might be your tenant but I'm also your friend and neighbour.'
Someone once said to her that when she spoke she made people feel naked against the world.

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#5. Tell them to stand in the shop for even an hour and you'd think they'd been asked to reverse the cosmos.

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#6. But I thought I'd always be your little boy?" "That's just something parents say when it suits us.

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#7. It was amazing to think that she'd always had it wrong, imagining that they were the weak ones, the ones who took their chance. No. The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice.

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#8. Happiness is a pretty precarious state, Randeep. I'm content. That's more than enough. That's more than most.

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#9. What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things.

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#10. He couldn't work it out. He felt too young to be married, though. He felt too young to be anything.

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#11. It really is a pathetic thing. To mourn a past you never had. Don't you think?

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#12. Funny how God offers you everything you've asked for, only to force you to turn it away.

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#13. I don't see what's so good about helping others, though. If they only become reliant on you. Then you're just part of the problem.

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#14. You're always welcome, but maybe it would be better if you were with people in the same difficulties as you.

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