Ayo’s Reviews > The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny > Status Update

“All deaths were not the same. The death of a third world man is different from a first world man. A rich man’s different from a poor man. In the poorer world, most men died before they’d arrived, before they’d achieved their destinies.”

Finally finished this bloated masterpiece 😍

I took like 10 pages of notes reading this and enjoyed our book club discussion on this. Desai is a hell of a WRITER 🔥

“I no longer want any human love.

I want to be free and not scared.”


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“First they admit you with a scholarship to hook you. The plan is not to renew it. So what are you going to do? You pay up somehow or the other. It is a business strategy.

Don’t think they are so squeaky clean in America. “

LMAO 🤣 🎯

“The longer i stayed in the states, the smaller my life was becoming.

If you’re treated like a cockroach why wouldn’t you become one? If nobody knows you, won’t you become a ghost?”

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“You can’t force people to love you.

If somebody doesn’t love you, it’s the higher calling to let them go.”

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“You fall sick when you are not corrupt”

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“To recoil from his fellow citizens was a moral failure. By announcing “rude person. rude person” he only upset his own being.

If you were easy going, you’ll be fine in India. It was when you lost your temper or intolerant that the door shut in your face.”


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“But if you feel it would be better to be admired by white people than to be admired by brown people, then you haven’t overcome the colonial narrative”

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“She had become one of those characters in the novels that she loved - the people who read Dickens in the jungle over and over.

Why?

Because when Dickens is better than your life, why live your life?”

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“Sunny registered himself hypocritical too when he looked away from other Indians he saw on the street . . . trying to make it in America by avoiding one another as if it was better to be one Indians than two Indians.

Better to be two Indians than three Indians. And better an Indian in New York than an Indian in India. “

Oh wow! We are talking about this now in books???🔥😍❤️