Shamini Flint

Quotes

1. Mrs. Singh finally hove into view.

   “About bloody time,” he muttered. “These fellows have been trying to take our passports, our bags, our trolley – they’d have walked off with me balanced on their heads if you’d taken any longer.”

   “Strong but not that strong,” remarked Mrs. Singh, leading the way to the taxi rank.

2. 

   He suspected they did it not just because of their voracious appetite for tropical hardwoods and the money that it brought in, but because of a visceral fear that someday they might have to acknowledge that they were wrong. Everything they had sought and bought had not brought them happiness, let alone contentment. [...] It was better to destroy the potential source of such unpalatable truths than have them live to witness the lives of quiet desperation of their tormentors.

3. 

   No respectable Sikh family would buy art merely for its aesthetic qualities.

4. 

   It seemed, pondered the inspector, that no sooner did you give a man a car than he wanted to drive somewhere and do something.

5. 

   "Buried six feet under, buried facing Mecca, burnt to cinders ... it does not matter. He is rotting in hell this very moment."

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