Shamini Flint Quotes
born 1969 Malaysia
Shamini Flint (born 26 October 1969) is a Malaysia-born former lawyer turned novelist.
- Malaysia
- Authors
- Lawyers
- Novelists
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"Why do you buy [shoddy goods] if you think the quality is so poor?"
Now there’s a place I like to do business. Clean, organised, honest, efficient and no slums on the doorstep.
The greed of others could not co-exist with the selflessness of the Penan with their gentle humour and generous hearts.
It seemed, pondered the inspector, that no sooner did you give a man a car than he wanted to drive somewhere and do something.
Sometimes, if you want to protect something you care about, you have to take extreme steps.
“I’m quite persuasive,” said Singh, his face forbidding. “And,” he amended, “she was willing to be persuaded.”
No respectable Sikh family would buy art merely for its aesthetic qualities.
The gods were fighting over her children but she could not seek the help of any of them.
In her view, fixating on the evidence for an individual crime was just pedantic.
All families had something to hide, a sin that loomed large in the household although trivial in the greater scheme of things.
“How’s the investigation going – any light at the end of the tunnel?”
“Of an oncoming train.”
Her life had all the ingredients of a Bollywood movie except the happy ending.
A mob is more than the sum of individuals. It is more like a single creature with many arms and legs, hydra-headed but working with one idea.
Singaporeans were always adding to the list of reasons each one kept to hand, in case they met a Malaysian, of why it was so much better on the island than the peninsula.
If publicity was the lifeblood of terrorists, the week-long siege of the hotel had been a massive transfusion.
He would avoid her relatives in the same way he’d always done – by sitting irascibly in a corner and allowing their waves of curiosity to wash over him.
Temples are places of worship, not war. We should never have let separatists hole up in our gurdwaras.
"He gives away a lot of money to charity and supports Sikh causes.”
“Maybe we could persuade him that I’m a Sikh cause.”
“Indian police not at all good at keeping secrets.”
“The press doesn’t seem to know that it’s murder,” said Singh reassuringly.
In India, Inspector Singh, life is sometimes very cheap.