20 quotes from Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things that will make you crave for her next book

In 1997 the world woke upto Arundhati Roy's brilliance as her book, The God of Small Things was published and took the nation by storm. Roy's poetry like prose, her tendency to bring out uncomfortabe truths we hide in some remote corners of our life, and her denial to judge her characters and us had the readers hooked. Over the years she has donned several hats,speaking and writing about socially relevant issues, but all of us, in rapt attention were waiting for her second non-fiction novel, and after ten long years the wait is finally over. As you count days to get your hands on her second novel - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, we bring to you 20 heartbreakingly beautiful quotes from her first novel to remind you of her power as a novelist.

Her words are brutally honest and yet so deceptively simple. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

ALmost almost remember these lines! (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Does it? (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Roy knows, Roy always knows. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Truer words were not spoken. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

These lines are heartbreakingly beautiful. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

You can read these lines again and again.(Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

They can, and they do,(Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Yes, always. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

See, how can we not wait for her second novel. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Her words always, always hit the mark. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Can you? (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Yes, a hundred times yes. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Arundhati Roy writes the most devastating truth in a poetic way. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

See what we were saying. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Roy knows the secret.(Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

We all know this, don't we? (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

Her words are so beautiful. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

And so brutally honest.(Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)

And so painful. (Source: The God of Small Things/ Designed by Rajan Sharma)