“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“I believed, when I entered this convent,
I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me! ”
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I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me! ”
―
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“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 porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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