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Kiran Desai
“because hell hath no fury like a man who is not the center of attention.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“Western psychology is no match for an Indian family. We are too slippery, we change shape, we don’t distinguish truth from lies. Lies are truth and truth are lies—you can’t pin us down.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“What was so odd, Babita reflected, was that this striving to escape India felt patriotic: If you were a worthy Indian, you became an American.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“dusk in India felt always settled, ancient, a civilization that had come to fullness.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai
“The United States had stolen her sweet son and transformed him into a foreigner trumpeting the American mantra of individuality and self-sufficiency in order to disguise his selfishness.”
Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

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