“It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
“Time only seems to have skipped, or to have sped by without you when you looked the other way.”
― There There
― There There
“Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’
‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand.”
― The Perfect Nanny
‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand.”
― The Perfect Nanny
“At Pappachi's funeral, Mammachi cried and her contact lenses slid around in her eyes. Ammu told the twins that Mammachi was crying more because she was used to him than because she loved him. She was used to having him slouching around the pickle factory, and was used to being beaten from time to time. Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kinds of things they could get used to. You only had to look around you, Ammu said, to see that beatings with brass vases were the least of them.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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