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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
– Arundhati Roy

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  2. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. – Arundhati Roy
  3. She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself. – Arundhati Roy
  4. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  5. Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin. – Arundhati Roy
  6. Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.) – Arundhati Roy
  7. Life went on. Death went on. The war went on. – Arundhati Roy
  8. History is really a study of the future, not the past. – Arundhati Roy
  9. Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us. – Arundhati Roy
  10. History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past. – Arundhati Roy
  11. How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws. – Arundhati Roy
  12. Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power. – Arundhati Roy
  13. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. – Arundhati Roy
  14. Enemies can’t break your spirit, only friends can. – Arundhati Roy
  15. Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us. – Arundhati Roy
  16. Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles… – Arundhati Roy
  17. Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, ???? You. – Arundhati Roy
  18. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. – Arundhati Roy
  19. From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living. – Arundhati Roy
  20. But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present? – Arundhati Roy
  21. In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said. – Arundhati Roy
  22. Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief. – Arundhati Roy
  23. Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. – Arundhati Roy
  24. There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot – that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes. – Arundhati Roy
  25. [Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise. – Arundhati Roy
  26. Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this,’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. -˜Our stomachs are graveyards. – Arundhati Roy
  27. There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. – Arundhati Roy
  28. The story flared, then faded. – Arundhati Roy
  29. Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  34. The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  35. The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
  36. As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
  37. Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  38. maybe if people weren’t so careless, then nothing would need to be caged. – AS King
  39. I can’t help seeing a cage for what it is. Sure, it protects the bulb, but maybe if people weren’t so careless, then nothing would need to be caged. – AS King
  40. I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it. – Sereda Aleta Dailey

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