I Felt Compelled to Include This...

Just some quotes throughout the book that I really enjoyed, that made me stop and think for a few moments (I highlighted them as I went along just so I could have this collection--I like to save good quotes somewhere to read them later):

• "Ammu, resting under the skin of her dream, observed them and ached with her love for them" (208).

• "'Promise me you'll always love each other,' she'd say, as she drew her children to her. 'Promise,' Estha and Rahel would say. Not finding words with which to tell her that for them there was no Each, no Other" (214-215).
  

• (The Great Stories)... "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" (218).

• "He is searching for the beast that lives within him, Comrade Pillai had told them..." ... "Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power" (225)

• "And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature" (272).

• "Faintly outlined. The sharp line of her jaw. Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin" (283).

• "He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair" (319).

From the sheer quantity of touching quotes that I found in this book (I don't usually stop at this many in other books), it is clear that Roy writes very eloquently and I really enjoy her style.