Arundhati Roy - Loved Quotes

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… To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget....

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Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them— just as an education, a precaution.

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If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

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Kochu Maria watched with her cake-crumbs.
The Fond Smiles watched Fondly.
Little Girls Playing.
Sweet.
One beach-coloured.
One brown.
One Loved.
One Loved a Little Less.

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They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

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They broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.

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