"This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise."

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Source : FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Feb 12, 2012

Kiran Desai

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.”
“Anything that prevents you from taking an action or actions that might reasonably dispel legitimate anxieties. Fear is what paralyzes you.”
“I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Eventually, the Gray Man thought, if he resisted using it for long enough, he himself might forget his own name, and became someone else entirely.”
“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”
“Even when you are feeling down, you have to live your life positively, that way, happy days and happy feelings will come to you some day.”
“I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.”

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