Quotes About Ammu

#1. The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.

Arundhati Roy

#2. 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.

Arundhati Roy

#3. Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

Arundhati Roy

#4. Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

Arundhati Roy

#5. Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.

Arundhati Roy

#6. What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.

Arundhati Roy

#7. Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf.

Arundhati Roy

#8. Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They ... gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.

Arundhati Roy

#9. And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.

Arundhati Roy

#10. If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions some people are lactose in tolerate.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

Hillary Clinton

#12. We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.

Henry B. Eyring

#13. You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.

Anne Dudley

#14. Cole chuckled, saying, Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

Gena Showalter

#15. I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Dave Davies

#16. Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may crane their necks and turn their leaves all they want toward the sun, but gravity has the last word.

Andre Aciman

#17. The best fighter is never angry.

Lao-Tzu