D’you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
—Arundhati Roy in The God of Small Things
About Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights...
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