- That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
- And 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.
- Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. 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 reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
- As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
Anything can happen to anyone.
It is best to be prepared.
- Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
- And 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.
- Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. 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 reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
- As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
Anything can happen to anyone.
It is best to be prepared.
- Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
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