The God of Small Things Quotes.

1. "That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

2. "...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."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

3. "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."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

4. "If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

5. "She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims..."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

6. "This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

7. "Change is one thing. Acceptance is another."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

8. "But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

9. "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."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

10. "The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke."
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things