Quotes from the Book 'Shame' Salman Rushdie's 'Shame' is a very famous Novel awarded with several presigious awards. The book is based on post - colonialism, muslim background, complex relationships, deprivations in childhood, democracy, dirty politics, harsh reality of life, and so on. Following are some selected quotings from the Novel - ~ “ Gossip is like a water. It probes surfaces for their weak places, until it finds the breakthrough point”. ~ “Trouble in a marriage is like monsoon water accumulating on flat roof. You don’t realize it’s up there, but it gets heavier & heavier until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head”. ~ What is the most powerful impulse of Human beings in the face of night, of danger, of the unknown? It is to run away; to avert the eyes and flee; to pretend the menace is not loping toward them in seven league boots. It is the will to ignorance, the iron folly with which we excise from