- Sandy: Roy, don't do it.
- Roy Kenner: Look, Sandy, I've come a helluva ways from Singapore to do this job and I'm gonna do it. You understand?
- Sandy: Hate. You're full of hate. It'll eat out your guts. You're gonna get yourself in a jam!
- Saji: A gun! Why do you have a gun? The gurus say a gun is very bad. It kills animals and people and it's wrong to kill anything for any reason.
- Saji: Souvenirs. Souvenirs. Souvenirs. Beautiful memories of India. Souvenirs. Beautiful memories of India. Cheap. Souvenirs. Beautiful memories of India. Souvenirs. Souvenirs. Beautiful memories of India. Cheap...
- Saji: Don't worry. Think of how it will be when we go to live with my father in United States of USA. He said so in his letter. He will send for us.
- Henderson: I'm indebted to you for allowing me to help. You're doing my karma a power of good.
- Roy Kenner: Karma?
- Henderson: Yes. It's a charming notion they have here. We're all accountable for our deeds, mental and physical. Judgment coming only with death. How is your karma?
- Saji: Oh, my dear fellow, I'm not a professional guide. I was merely extending a hand across the sea which separates us all.
- Mother Superior: That's the little boy I told you about, my little Saji.
- Sister Katherine: Poor child. To think his mother's just one step above...
- Mother Superior: You may recall our Savior passed no such judgment when confronted by one of her eternal sisterhood.
- Sister Katherine: I'm sorry, Reverend Mother.
- Mother Superior: My child, if you stay any time at all in this part of the world, you will learn there is little you can judge by Western standards.
- Saji: Can you read and write like Sister Agnes who had to go back to the United States, because in her years she was getting too many?
- Mother Superior: Let the boy have his dream. The good Lord knows, they ripen and fall off the vine soon enough.
- Henderson: No, no. That's all, my friend. That's all right, old boy. No, no. I'll drop the kid off. I don't want to have you perambulating about, you know. You don't look too well.
- Anasuya: It's my karma.
- Roy Kenner: Your karma? What the hell did you ever do wrong, except believe a guy who gave you a kid and a promise.
- Anasuya: Something in a past life for which I must pay for now and many lives to come.
- Roy Kenner: I only know about this life. And I only care about this life. And about how I felt when I first saw you.
- Roy Kenner: I'll be back.
- Anasuya: Somebody better pray for you so you can be born again. Let me be the one.
- Anasuya: He asked how many gods we believed in. I said we had a god for everything. He said he believed in only one God. I said, so did we, but, that our one God has many different faces. He said, "Lady, I have a feeling that your God will be mine - and my God yours."
- Anasuya: I loved him. Even when I knew he wasn't coming back, I still loved him. But, now it's all gone. Like a monsoon that comes and passes and leaves not a memory of rain.
- Roy Kenner: The quicker I get going, the sooner I can finish my business.
- Anasuya: What is your business?
- Roy Kenner: Forget it.
- Anasuya: It's his way of trying to loose himself and find God. I suppose this all seems very strange to you.
- Anasuya: Oh, look. Vultures from the Tower of Silence. That's where the Parsis leave their dead.
- Roy Kenner: Yeah. Not all vultures fly, though.
- Henderson: Ah, good riddance! They cling like limpets. They're all the same, these little half-caste bastards.
- Roy Kenner: And you're a full-caste bastard.