Quotes

Ahmad

‘As though they were a rare bread of Siamese twins, physically separate, but with joint identities’ (relationship between Estha and Rahel) ‘But a viable die-able age’ (example of inventing words, neologism) ‘Two weeks later Estha, was Returned’ ‘…their father had re-Returned Estha’ (recurring theme of people leaving and returning to Ayemenem) ‘The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’ (introduction to recurring idea of love laws) ‘…he didn’t believe that an Englishman, //any// Englishman, would covet another man’s wife.’ (anglophilic nature of Ipe family) ‘The fate of the wretched man-less woman’ (love laws) ‘He started off by saying that my niece had //consented,// can you imagine’ (love laws; women are not supposed to consent for sex) ‘And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside.’ (theme of small things)