Quotes by Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Of one thing, though, she was sure: "I want to travel," she confessed.Books were making her restless. She was beginning — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them? — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Sadness was so claustrophobic. — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the scri — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child t — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you. — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust winnowed to softness a — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beau — Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss