7 Quotes from The God of Small Things book by Arundhati Roy
Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 7 quotes from The God of Small Things book by Arundhati Roy that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The God of Small Things Quotes
- It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined.
- Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house – the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture – must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
- Choosing between her husband's name and her father's name didn't give a woman much of a choice.
- History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestors whispering inside. To understand history, we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.
- This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
- Anything's possible in Human Nature. Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
- The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.