“We get used to everything to the point that we even get used to getting used to everything.”
― There There
― There There
“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.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“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
“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
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