Kiran Desai Quotes
But While The Residents Were Shocked By The Violence, They Were Also Often Surprised By The Mundaneness Of It All. Discovered The Extent Of Perversity The Heart Is Capable Of As They Sat At Home With Nothing To Do, And Found That It Was Possible, Faced With The Stench Of Unimaginable Evil, For A Human Being To Grow Bored, Yawn, Be Absorbed By The Problem Of A Missing Sock, By Neighborly Irritations, To Feel Hunger Skipping Like A Little Mouse Inside A Tummy And Return, Once Again, To The Pressing Matter Of What To Eat ... There They Were, The Most Commonplace Of Them, Those Quite Mismatched With The Larger-than-life Questions, Caught Up In The Mythic Battles Of Past Vs. Present, Justice Vs. Injustice
The Most Ordinary Swept Up In Extraordinary Hatred, Because Extraordinary Hatred Was, After All, A Commonplace Event,
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