Chandresh Joshi > Chandresh's Quotes

“What was joy, anyway. What was the worth of happiness that left behind a crater thrice the size of its impact.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“The morning light was the colour of too-milky tea. It snuck into the bedsit like a sly ghost, crossing the carpet and inching slowly up his bare legs.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“To Shuggie, the aunties who came to visit were often worse. It was like Agnes’s worse qualities went out and found a friend.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“No, hen, we’re drinking piss-cold tea,” scolded Bridie. “It’s only ye who’s neckin’ vodka like it was tap water.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“I’ve never liked those AA places. They attract the lowest kind of people. God gave you a will. You should use it to save yourself.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“She’s never going to get off the drink.” Shuggie was staring into the swampy broth. “She might. I just have to try harder to help her.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“Shuggie watched her and said under his breath, “Why can’t I be enough?” But she wasn’t listening.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“He let her cry, he let her talk, and he didn’t contradict her when she made him fine promises he knew she would be unable to keep.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“History is a silent record of people who could not leave, it is a record of those who did not have a choice, you cannot leave when you have nowhere to go and have not the means to go there, you cannot leave when your children cannot get a passport, cannot go when your feet are rooted in the earth and to leave means tearing off your feet.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“after a certain age a man grows a beard not to enter manhood but to put a barrier to his youth,”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“The end of the world is always a local event.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“When all else fails, philosophize.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”

“I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace