Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other’s rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understan...
The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation...
It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?
Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish to God I could buy black hair products from black people for once. How we going to make it in this country if we don't make our own...
More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.
It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the truth. I have to worry about the truth that can be lived with. And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff that comes from the streams...
Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.
Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.
He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no sexual identity; took other people’s jobs; or had no job and bummed off the state; or gave all the jobs to his relatives; that he could be a dentist ...
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.
And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and did they leave their front doors open, did they leave their kids with the neighbors, pay social calls, run up tabs with the butcher? The funny thing a...
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.
