Quotes of Kiran Desai - somelinesforyou

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

- Kiran Desai

“ When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of? ”

- Kiran Desai
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