“D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. 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.”

“Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution.”

“People always loved best what they identified most with.”

“One beach-colored.One brown.One Loved.One Loved a Little Less.”

“I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?”