“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. ”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”
― A Killing Frost
― A Killing Frost
“I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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