"The Inheritance of Loss" Quotes
An intergenerational tale of love, loss, and identity set against the backdrop of political and social upheaval in India and the Himalayas.
fiction | 336 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
Despair was a choice. Hatred was a choice. Anger was a choice. Love was a choice.
Happiness held no interest for him, only absence of pain.
Long experience of disappointments and treacheries make one slow to trust.
Lonely? You are lucky to be alone, for loneliness is a privilege of the strong.
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it?
She had a thing for words, always had, as if words were the breadcrumbs that would lead her out of the darkness.
Life is like a drunken dance in the midst of a storm; you struggle to keep balance, fighting the forces that try to push you down.
Love is the marketplace for wonders.
Sometimes silence is the deadliest sound.
