Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance Quotes
...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
People forget how vulnerable they are despite their shirts and shoes and briefcases, how this hungry and cruel world could strip them, put them in the same position as my beggars.
The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.
Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.
democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion
A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.
You fellows are amazing, ' the sweaty cook roared over the stoves. 'Everything happens to you only. Each time you come here, you have a new adventure story to entertain us
I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.