16 Quotes by Sunjeev Sahota

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.

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.

The weakest are those who stay put and call it sacrifice, call it not having a choice. Because, really, there was always a choice and she – one of the cowards, she realized – was making hers now. She turned back to the window, to the identical roofs. She closed her hands over the chunni and twisted it tight. “Please. Go away.

Something happened a few years ago that made it clear to me that I’m only ever going to be a guest in this country. That it doesn’t matter how many garden parties I threw for my neighbors, this would never be my real home. It’s important that a man has a sense of a real home. A sense of his own ending.

But I thought I’d always be your little boy?” “That’s just something parents say when it suits us.

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

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.

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

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