The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Evil is not what we should fear. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.”
“Mirrors lie as much as memories do.”
“Even on the sad days, when you have to process young children or those leaving lovers behind, you come to realise that every death is significant, even when every life appears not to be.”
“Because, on reflection, once you have seen your own face and recognized the color of your eyes, tasted the air and smelled the soil, drunk from the purest fountains and the dirtiest wells, that is the kindest thing you can say abut life. It's not nothing.”
“The universe is all mathematics and probabilities.”
“In all this madness, there is only one beast whose existence you doubt. And you are not thinking of God, also known as Whoever. You are thinking of that most impossible of all mythical creatures: the Honest Politician.”
“Though, as every gambler knows, the biggest killer in this godless universe is the random roll of the dice. Plain stinking jungle variety bad luck. The thing that gets us all.”
“Magic isn’t evil or good. Or black or white. It is like the universe, like every missing God. Powerful and supremely indifferent.”
“How else to explain the world’s madness? If there’s a heavenly father, he must be like your father: absent, lazy and possibly evil. For atheists there are only moral choices. Accept that we are alone and strive to create heaven on earth. Or accept that no one’s watching and do whatever the hell you like. The latter is by far easier.”
“We must all find pointless causes to live for, or why bother with breath?”
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