"The God of Small Things" Quotes
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy is a poignant tale of forbidden love and societal constraints in 1960s India.
fiction | 360 pages | Published in 2002
Quotes
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought.
Things can change in a day. And lives can change in a second.
Some things come with their own punishments.
She wore a pair of earrings that Rahel had made for her. They were her only real possession.
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets.
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined.
The way her silence fell from her like things that had been stuck to her body.
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.
