Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the n…

Arundhati Roy
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Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.245, Penguin Books India
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