“As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.”
― Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
― Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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