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Book cover for The Favour
You have to live with doubt and uncertainty; you have to hold contradictions together and not struggle to resolve them. You have to learn that you’re not as in control of life as you might like.
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Kiran Desai
“Perhaps if you kept yourself small, kept moving, kept as distant from your own life and fate as it was possible to be, the odds would be in your favor in this regard. Just as your luck would fail to find you, so would your tragedy.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“You can’t force people to love you, thought Sunny. If somebody doesn’t love you, it’s the higher calling to let them go.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“Off the top of her head she could think of a lawyer who had given up lawyering to open a bookshop in Panjim,”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“You see, the secret is you must marinate the fillet in ground mustard and lime before you batter and fry—that magically brings out the flavor!”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“He thought among the best reasons to emigrate was to pack one’s own bag and carry it oneself, to have no servants, to clean one’s own house.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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