I just watched the film. So many beautiful words and images:
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“We all owe death a life.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“What you were is forever who you are.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
“...because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Thanks to Goodreads for making such beautiful quotes quickly available.
