Brierley Quotes

#1. I was about to embark on a high-tech version of what I'd done in my first week there, twenty years ago, randomly taking trains out to see if they went back home. I took a deep breath, chose a train line, and started scrolling along it.

Saroo Brierley

#2. I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Rob Corddry

#3. Not having enough to eat paralyzes you and keeps you living hour by hour instead of thinking about what you would like to accomplish in a day, week, month, or year. Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But

Saroo Brierley

#4. Sometimes it felt as if the world had forgotten about us and our problems.

Saroo Brierley

#5. was a juvenile detention centre, called Liluah, housing

Saroo Brierley

#6. I'd learned quickly, as a matter of survival, that I needed to take opportunities as they came - if they came - and to look forward to the future.

Saroo Brierley

#7. My return seemed to inspire and energize the neighborhood, as though it was evidence that the hard luck of life did not have to rule you. Sometimes miracles do happen.

Saroo Brierley

#8. We all reach a point as young adults when we wonder what we should be doing with our lives - or, at the very least, which direction to point ourselves in. Beyond the means to get by, we need to think about what's most important to us. Not surprisingly, I discovered that for me the answer was family.

Saroo Brierley

#9. Adoptees, whether or not they ever knew their birth parents, often describe the constant, gnawing feeling of there being something missing: without a connection, or at least the knowledge of where they are from, they feel incomplete.

Saroo Brierley

#10. carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family's loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves out of poverty.

Saroo Brierley

#11. My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea".

Saroo Brierley

#12. She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The

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#13. We like songs that are familiar.

Charles Duhigg

#14. One of the most touching things my mother said to me was that if I ever wanted to come back to live in India, she would build me a home and go out and work hard so that I could be happy.

Saroo Brierley

#15. I'd had to learn some of these differences, too. Mum remembers taking me somewhere in the car once when I looked at her and said, "Lady no drive." She pulled over and said, "If lady no drive, then boy walk!" I quickly learned my lesson.

Saroo Brierley

#16. This place isn't a refuge, it's a slave market. Why doesn't anyone see that?'
'Who says they don't see it? It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.'
'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

Neal Shusterman

#17. The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

Terry Winograd

#18. What is blood but the wine of life?

Vera Nazarian

#19. Hunger limits you because you are constantly thinking about getting food, keeping the food if you do get your hands on some, and not knowing when you are going to eat next.

Saroo Brierley

#20. It's been a little tough just because we've been playing so much. Your lives are getting a little more complicated than they were straight out of college when we first started. People are starting to get married, have families and all, it becomes more of a challenge. It's not an easy lifestyle.

Barry Privett

#21. For the first time, I told Mum that the place I was from was called "Ginestlay," and when

Saroo Brierley

#22. You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. Ever since, I've thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can't absorb by themselves.

Saroo Brierley

#23. The idea of having possessions took some getting used to.

Saroo Brierley

#24. I feel strongly that from my being a little lost boy with no family to becoming a man with two, everything was meant to happen just the way it happened. And I am profoundly humbled by that thought.

Saroo Brierley

#25. The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

Don Winslow