Kiran Desai Quotes

Of one thing, though, she was sure: "I want to travel," she confessed.Books were making her restless...

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. Bu...

Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust wi...

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was c...

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanw...

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consci...

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...