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“May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― The God of Small Things
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― The God of Small Things
“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
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