Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
("The God of Small Things")
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As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.
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