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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The inspector wondered whether ‘those people’ really had immunity or just died at a higher rate than the wealthier denizens of the city. He suspected the latter.
"Buried six feet under, buried facing Mecca, burnt to cinders ... it does not matter. He is rotting in hell this very moment."
Singh was always impressed at his wife’s ability to draw large conclusions from infinestimal pieces of evidence. She’d fit right into the Singapore police murder squad.
Humanity was doomed, decided Singh, which made his job of hunting down individual murderers particularly pointless.
“Finger prints?”
“Wiped.”
Singh sighed. Was there a criminal out there who didn’t know to wipe his prints?
“Everyone needs a hobby,” said [Inspector] Singh.
“Terrorists also.”
“Oh, I see,” said [Inspector] Singh, flippancy erased from his voice. “That’s not good news.”
He knew from his own experience in Singapore that the further up the ladder one got, the more the job was about politics and statistics than actually dealing with crime.
"That's Mao."
"Do people still respect him?"
"The government pays lip service to his memory, but the hero worship of past eras is over."
"And what about the ordinary people?"
"The so-called proletariat?"
"Yup."
"They've found another god to follow."
"Xi Jinping?"
"Money."