Suri Quotes

#1. I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.

Chelsea Handler

#2. As it is, I'm Elizabeth DeVille, super spy and resident poor girl, and watching him out of the corner of my eye will have to do. I nod at something my best friend Suri is saying to me, feeling like a shitty friend because I'm not really listening.

Ella James

#3. Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had tattoos, was always filthy, afraid of nothing, and could do magic. From the first time I met her, I wanted to be Suri ... I still do.
- THE BOOK OF BRIN

Michael J. Sullivan

#4. In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.

Manil Suri

#5. As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

Himanshu Suri

#6. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

#7. I made sure we fucked whenever the conversations got too emotional or too long - we weren't lesbians, after all.

Manil Suri

#8. Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

Manil Suri

#9. My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

Himanshu Suri

#10. Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

Manil Suri

#11. What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

Manil Suri

#12. See those people holding hands?" he asked at the candlelight vigil outside the still-smoking Taj Hotel. "They're neither Hindus nor Muslims, but citizens of Bombay first.

Manil Suri

#13. Wer rastet, rostet - what rests, rusts.

Manil Suri

#14. The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.

Manil Suri

#15. What will happen to the flowers, now that you are gone? The earth that clings to the steps, the tulsi that begins to sprout. The colors that brighten the darkness of the stairs, the scents that perfume the air. Must I climb alone the petal-strewn trail of your descent?

Manil Suri

#16. I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

Manil Suri

#17. You can scream you're Indian, you can disavow your religion, you can even be the next incarnation of Krishna for all your Hindu countrymen will care. Their HRM will pull down your pants and check your foreskin and slaughter you just the same.

Manil Suri

#18. This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

Manil Suri

#19. Oy vey, these guys is New York's spineless
Strangled and denied it for Anthony Baez

Himanshu Suri

#20. God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

Manil Suri

#21. The difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

Manil Suri

#22. was it they who were flawed, or was it he?

Manil Suri

#23. Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?

Manil Suri

#24. What did religion do to people, to provoke such obstinancy, such hysteria - how did it push people to the stage of torturing themselves and killing each other?

Manil Suri

#25. Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.

Manil Suri

#26. Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.

Manil Suri

#27. Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence.

Michael J. Sullivan

#28. Endings need to be lived, they cannot be ordained.

Manil Suri

#29. Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you.
Already, I can see my epitaph. Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them.

Manil Suri

#30. Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin.

Manil Suri

#31. What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

Manil Suri

#32. To think I need a gun to protect against those who'd kill me for being Muslim ... It's too bad they don't know about my true religion of noodling - a reason to get their nuts in a snit.

Manil Suri

#33. I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm fresh, look at me, I have money." At some point, when you have an audience for it, there are stories that need to be told.

Himanshu Suri

#34. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

Siri Hustvedt