The Satanic Verses (novel)

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The Satanic Verses, a 1988 book by Salman Rushdie

• "'To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'"
  • Source: Chapter 1, "The Angel Gibreel" (first sentence).

• "The history of life was not the bumbling progress--the very English, middle-class progress--Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution."
  • Source: Chapter 1, "The Angel Gibreel"

• "Question: What is the opposite of faith?

Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt."

• • Source: Chapter 2, "Mahound"

• "'Martyrdom is a privilege,' she said softly. 'We shall be like stars; like the sun.'"
  • Source: Chapter 4, "Ayesha"

• "No, not death: birth."
  • Source: Chapter 4, "Ayesha"

• "But names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etimology being buried, like so many of the Earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."
  • Source: Chapter 4, "Ayesha"

• "Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?"
  • Source: Chapter 5, "A City Visible but Unseen"

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