What would you do if you meet someone who talks/opines/muses like...
"The world and I are not on the speaking terms. The world tries to win me back, but it doesn't work. I guess I'm just not the forgiving type."
"It's my favourite place in the whole world, to be treated like dirt."
"You said it's important to have freedom to say no, but I think it's more important to have freedom to say yes."
"The truth is a bully we all pretend to like."
"He is the kind of man who wears his sleeve on his heart."
"I could never respect a man who didn't have the good sense to be at least a little afraid of me."
"Sometimes you have to surrender before you win."
"Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it."
I'd only give you advice if I didn't care what happens to you."
"If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke."
"I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about."
"They look like monuments of something that died. Something very unpopular.. like... human spirit, for example."
"Sometimes I think that's what heaven is- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever."
"Happiness is a myth, it was invented to make us buy things."
"People always hurt us with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him."
"I don't know what frightens me more,the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it."
"Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they'd never happened."
"It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts."
"Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way round."
"Depression only happens to people who don't know how to be sad."
"Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting"
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I would fall in love with her.
[Dialogues of the female protagonist in Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts]
April 14, 2007
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And I'd like have a long conversation on life with her.
(Nice selection of lines, I must say!)
Nice collection really. You might also like Dominique Francon of The Fountainhead.
Karla...I instantly fell for her while reading d book...i dont know I would be in love with such a woman but I would surely love to be near one like her...I guess she would be the dream woman of any man..maybe not "any"
so finally u read d book...Good :)
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Id be like " Man if she and I were to talk we'd keep this going forever, better not start it" :D
I just finished the book - twas too good man! Lin was storytelling reality in a way which was unbelievable and the witticisms of Karla, Didier and he himself did make my brain take double-takes. I especially like Madame Zhou's description when he finds her in the end "..her hands on her lap like objects washed over a deserted shore..." too good! Good compilation there - reading it brought back those memories
But the problem is that she wouldn't fall in love with you..and you know why
[Akshay]
While Karla makes you think, Didier makes you think and laugh at the same time! And most often their words were not pure witticism, they were stark observations. And that's what I liked about them. Awesome book.
That too would be good, even better! A month after reading it I'd say falling for a girl just for her wit is dangerous! There were so many things about her that would've made my life worse.
Guys change so fast, hai na? :D
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