Quotes by Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the patter — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room fo — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautifu — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, t — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world cou — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they donating', said Din — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people. — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for something, one came out — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Narayan explained how they had spent the morning, and Dukhi laughed to hear it. the entire episode made Radha furious. " — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fun — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feeli — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? A — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From their — Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance