“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”

— Kiran Desai

Source: Inheritance of Loss

Last update Nov. 18, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life." by Kiran Desai?

Kiran Desai photo

Kiran Desai13

Indian author 1971

Related quotes

“Why couldn't someone have patience for me?
Why couldn't someone be wise to my fears?
Tell me why couldn't somebody cry for me
This time? And if I should die, who'll be the first to cry?”

Happy Rhodes (1965) American singer-songwriter

"The First To Cry" - Live performance New Haven, CT (4 April 2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxKnOLRFiA <br class="br">Rhodes Volume I (1986)

“She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

“She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do but sit by her mother's bedside, hold her limp hand, and home someone else, somewhere else, would be able to do what she couldn't.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 59

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“… how many times… have they caught anti-gay advocates of "family values" cheating on their wives (often illegally) with prostitutes, on drugs, having gay sex or sharing a hotel room with a rent boy? It happens so often now that it's almost expected any time someone seems to protest too much.”

Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast

Youtube, Other, Biblical Family Values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bldw8X5apnY (July 11, 2015)

“The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else.
But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead

Source: Club Dead

“Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.”

Ursula K. Le Guin book The Eye of the Heron

Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 2 (p. 30)

Related topics