Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we n — Arundhati Roy

"In those early amorphous years of life, when memory had only just begun, when life was full of Beginnings and no Ends, and everything was Forever"

"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."

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

"Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mols death, describing Mamachis grief, and Chackos)."

"The U.S. empire rests on a grisly foundation: the massacre of millions of indigenous people, the stealing of their lands, and following this, the kidnapping and en- slavement of millions of black people from Africa to work that land. Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents. "Stolen from Africa, brought to America"-Bob Marleys "Buffalo Soldier" contains a whole universe of unspeakable sadness."

"The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it cant very well return without having fought one. If it doesnt find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and well lose sight of why its being fought in the first place."