"The Shadow Lines" Quotes
"The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh explores the intertwined lives and memories of individuals across India, England, and Bangladesh, delving into themes of nationalism, identity, and the blurred boundaries of time and space.
fiction | 246 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The world is full of things that could have been, had the sequence of events been ever so slightly different.
The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you're alive, and die only when you're dead.
The birth of a nation is not an event that happens in a day.
The lines that divide the nations are the shadow lines.
Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of human beings that is far more guilty of innocence than any other: the children.
We are all hostages of the same universe.
The world is not a happy place, is it? It is filled with shadows and fears, and the people who are afraid of the fears.
The only answer is to love the world despite everything, to love it with all its horrors and its beauty.
The most important things are always the hardest to say.
