The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.”
“Sadness was so claustrophobic.”
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”
“A journey once begun, has no end”
“All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.”
“The fact was that one was left empty-handed. There was no system to soothe the unfairness of things; justice was without scope; it might snag the stealer of chickens, but great evasive crimes would have to be dismissed because, if identified and netted, they would bring down the entire structure of so-called civilization. For crimes that took place in the monstrous dealings between nations, for crimes that took place in those intimate spaces between two people without a witness...”
“Never again would he know love for a human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.”
“But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?”
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Book Keywords:
animal, present, only-emotion, emotional, judge-patel, mutt, first-sentence, change, dog, sadness, past
