Quotes by Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spo — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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 aro — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged ou — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pil — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by ski — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watch — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
They sensed somehow that she lived in the prenumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. T — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, in — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her ski — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across th — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself. No milestones m — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybod — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things