I read this book more than a year ago. I loved the book though the filmy climax was a bit of a downer, I still loved it. Recently I found this piece of paper where I had written down my favourite lines from the book. Some of them don't make much sense out of context but they are good lines nevertheless.Lin / Shantaram's lines
"Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending"
"Freedom to say no. If you've got that much freedom, you don't really need anymore"
Karla has some of the best lines in the book
"Some of the worst things were caused by people who tried to change things"
"It isn't a secret unless keeping it hurts"
"Men reveal what they think when they look away and what they feel when the hesitate. With women it's the other way around"
"Happiness is myth. It was invented to make us buy things"
Didier's character appears on and off but he gets a line a too and darn good one at that.
"There is no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons"
Kader Bhai is a pivotal character and he's got a lot of lines, this is my favourite.
"It is possible to do the wrong things for the right reasons"
This is a Pashto saying that Kader Bhai quotes
"You are not a man until you give your love truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love truly and freely of a child in return"
How lovely! I should go back and read this book again.
