When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was th… - Arundhati Roy

In the last ten years of unbridled Corporate Globalization...the numbers of poor in the world has increased by 100 million.

When the twins asked what cuff-links were for — “To link cuffs together,” Ammu told them — they were thrilled by this morsel of logic in what had so far seemed an illogical language. Cuff+link = cuff-link. This, to them, rivaled the precision of logic and mathematics. Cuff-links gave them an inordinate (if exaggerated) satisfaction, and a real affection for the English language.

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.