The God of Small Things

"The river smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans."

"Anything can happen to anyone. And it often does."

"Sad things happened all the time."

"The earth trembled under their feet."

"Walls. Brick ones, Cement ones. Tin ones."

"Desire is a malevolent thing. It makes diamonds into frogs and Cupidstones into fish."

"Nothing can fix anything."

"The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost."

"History is important. But it's the small things that matter in life."

"The small god of small things watches over all that is forgotten."

"We inherit the sins of our ancestors and cannot escape them."

"Touch is the most dangerous and necessary of all human connections."

"The world is indifferent to our suffering and our joy."

"To love is to risk losing everything that matters."

"The past corrodes the present like rust corrupts metal."

"We are all trapped in the small things that define our existence."

"Language itself becomes a prison for thoughts too dangerous to express."

"The law protects those with power and punishes those without."

"Exile can be imposed by geography or by the bonds of family."

"Children perceive truths that adults have learned to ignore."

"The monster is not always the one accused, but sometimes the accuser."

"Happiness is a luxury that cannot be afforded by those in the margins."

"Power derives from control, and those without control are destroyed."

"The river flows with the weight of all our sorrows."

"Boundaries between right and wrong dissolve in moments of passion."

"The body remembers what the mind wishes to forget."

"We construct ourselves through the stories we tell about ourselves."

"Art exists as resistance against the forces that seek to suppress it."

"Love between those society forbids carries its own particular burden."

"The price of transgression is paid by the innocent."