Jayati

“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

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

“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

“During stressful times it was inevitable that you began to think your child was an idiot who would be able to handle nothing—until you were drawn in the other direction by pride in their naïve honorableness, a desire to share in their shadow-free lives in rich countries where it was normal to criticize Third World corruption, ignoring the massive corruption of the First World, before which we are all ants trying to get an impossible view of an elephant.”
― Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny