Quotes from the Novels I have read.....

The Catcher in the Rye : J.D. Shalinger
1. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
2. Dont even tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Midnight's Children : Salman Rushdi
1. Anything you want to be, you can be : you can be just what all you want.
2. Nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
3. To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
4. What cant be cured must be endured.
5. Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

The Moor's last sigh : Salman Rushdi
1. I must live until I die.
2. You must not cry like a woman for a thing which you could not defend like a man.
3. Wise man's brain does not come automatic with wise man's name.
4. We look up and we hope the stars look down. We pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but its only our vanity.We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise.Its true that if you watch the sky- wheel may turn for a while you will see a metero fall, flame and die. Thats not a star worth following, its just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. Ther are no guiding stars.
5. I stopped being afraid becuase if my time on earth is limited, I dont have seconds to spare for funk.

Angels and Demons : Dan Brown
Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me i will never understand God. My heart tells me i am not meant to.

The Da Vinci Code : Dan Brown
History is always written by the winners when two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparaged the conquered. As Napolean once said : "What is history, but a fable agreed upon". By its very nature history is always a one sided account.

To kill a mocking Bird : Harper Lee
1. One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one cant do anything about them.
2. The one thing that doesnt abide by majority rule is person's conscience.
3. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,until you climb into his skin and walk.
4. People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Kite Runner : Khaled Hosseini
There is only one sin, only one and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.When you cheat you steal the right to fairness.

A thousand Splendid Suns : Khaled Hosseini
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. - about Afghanistan

Memoirs of a Geisha : Arthur Golden
1. Nothing is bleaker than the furture, except perhaps the past.
2. "I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting". I seek to defeat his confidence. A man troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
3. Grief is the most peculiar thing; we are so helpless in the face of it. Its like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.
4. A man who has won a prize coveted by his friend faces a difficult choice: he must hide his prize away where the friend will never see it if he can or suffer damage to the friendship.

The Monk who sold his Ferrari : Robin Sharma
1. Life always dont give what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.
2. We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.