"Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion."

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Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Kiran Desai

#Father Quotes #Coconuts Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.”
“I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle”
“Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.”
“From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.”
“For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.”
“I love you inâ€“in every kind of way.â€™ â€˜I feel like that too . . .â€™ His voice is shocked and raw. â€˜Itâ€™s â€“ itâ€™s a feeling so big I sometimes think itâ€™s going to swalow me. Itâ€™s so strong I feel it could kil me. It keeps growing and I canâ€™t â€“ I donâ€™t know what to do to stop it. But â€“ but weâ€™re not supposed to do this â€“ to love each other like this!”
“Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.”
“The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.”

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