“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”

—  Arundhati Roy, book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

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