Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
Arundhati RoyThis was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
Arundhati RoyTags: family
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.
Arundhati RoyAnd the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati RoyHave we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?
Arundhati RoyTags: humanity war horror terror war-on-terror desensitized
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati RoyIt 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 RoyInsanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
Arundhati RoyTags: simile
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
Arundhati RoyHis eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife.
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