Quotes from book

The Inheritance of Loss

“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”

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“Sadness was so claustrophobic.”

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“All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.”

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“A journey once begun, has no end”

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

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“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”

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

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

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