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Quotes from The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy

born 1961 India

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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.

The God of Small Things (1997)

They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

The God of Small Things (1997)

Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).

The God of Small Things (1997)

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

The God of Small Things (1997)

Thirty-one.
Not old.
Not young.
But a viable die-able age.

The God of Small Things (1997)

In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever

The God of Small Things (1997)

Kochu Maria watched with her cake-crumbs.
The Fond Smiles watched Fondly.
Little Girls Playing.
Sweet.
One beach-coloured.
One brown.
One Loved.
One Loved a Little Less.

The God of Small Things (1997)

The story of the tragic decline of an Indian family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love, The God of Small Things is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India.

The God of Small Things (1997)

He watched her. He took his time.
Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?
Perhaps.
Perhaps not.
Who can tell?

The God of Small Things (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arundhati Roy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.