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....

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

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?

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....

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