The Best Saroo Brierley Quotes

[discussing how to find Saroo's family]
Dinner: What paper trail?
Saroo: My mum could not read or write.
Dinner: What did she do?
Saroo: A labourer... she carried rocks.

Saroo: I'm sorry you couldn't have your own kids.
Sue: What are you saying?
Saroo: We... we... weren't blank pages, were we? Like your own would have been. You weren't just adopting us but our past as well. I feel like we're killing you.
Sue: I could have had kids.
Saroo: What?
Sue: We chose not to have kids. We wanted the two of you. That's what we wanted. We wanted the two of you in our lives.That's what we chose.
[pause]
Sue: That's one of the reasons I fell in love with your dad.
[pause]
Sue: Because we both felt as if... the world has enough people in it. Have a child, couldn't guarantee it will make anything better. But to take a child that's suffering like you boys were. Give you a chance in the world. That's something.

[last lines]
Saroo: [leaving phone message] Hi, mum. I know you will be sound asleep. I just want to say that I'm safe. Safe and all the questions have been answered. There are no more deadends. I found my mother, and... she thanks you both for raising me. She understands that you are my family. She's... happy, just knowing I'm alive. I found her, but that doesn't change who you are. I love you, mom... so much. And you, Dad. And Mantosh. Saroo.

Saroo: Please, could you not do anything while I'm away to make mum more unhappy than you already do?
Mantosh: Mate, why do you think I stay away?

Lucy: [Saroo goes into the kitchen to get a beer. On the way back, he sees some Jalebis, a fried Indian desert, on the counter in a plate. A memory takes him back to his childhood with his older brother, Guddu. He smells it and takes a bite slowly as his girlfriend Lucy comes beside him] Saroo... You OK?
Bharat: [a male dinner guest comes into the kitchen also and places his hand on Saroo's back] Saroo?
Saroo: I'm not from Calcutta... I'm lost.

Saroo: Do you have any idea what it's like knowing my real brother and mother spent every day of their lives looking for me? Huh? How every day my real brother screams my name? Can you imagine the pain they must be in not knowing where I am?