Siddharth Téndulkar

“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 around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things