"The Buddha of Suburbia" Quotes
"The Buddha of Suburbia" follows Karim Amir, a mixed-race teenager in 1970s London, as he navigates identity, culture, and ambition during a time of social change.
fiction | 354 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
Only dull and virtuous people bore themselves and each other.
You didn't understand that there isn't anywhere else.
We all reach a point in our lives when we stop fixing our parents;
I suppose the part of him that had no manners attracted me.
I was still busy feeling sorry for myself;
You thought cold was glamorous, exciting.
If Karim had a mum who could moan about the past. He wouldn't need anything else.
You've always been the one I wanted, deep down, but we were both too bloody fragile to be around each other.
You're my future, the rest is a can of beans.
It was like a room where all the furniture was nailed to the ceiling.





