Quotes by : Kiran Desai

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

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