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said A Sunbeam Lent To Us Too Briefly.
Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes.
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used
‘Our dreams have been doctored. We belong nowhere. We sail unanchored on troubled seas. We may
never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad enough. Our joys never happy enough. Our dreams never big enough. Our lives never important enough. To matter.’
Excitement Always Leads to Tears.
‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.’
driver and said, ‘Excuse me,’ in a deep, unnatural
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of
To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.
It’s true. Things can change in a day.
So if she were granted one small wish perhaps it would only have been Not to Know. Not to know what each day held in store for her. Not to know where she might be, next month, next year. Ten years on. Not to know which way her road might turn and what lay beyond the bend.
offering. One small life. A brief sunbeam. With a silver thimble clenched for luck in its little first.
