Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the e — Kiran Desai
Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the e — Kiran Desai
Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the e — Kiran Desai
Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the e — Kiran Desai
Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the e — Kiran Desai
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Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

— Kiran Desai
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