"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

-- Jean Rostand

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.”
“I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.”
“Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.”
“It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”
“We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.”
“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.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“As in a game of cards, so in the game of life, we must play what is dealt to us, and the glory consists, not so much in winning as in playing a poor hand well.”
“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”

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