Chapter 8 GOST

1. “Welcome to Ayemenem. I’m sorry I cannot see you. As you must know, I am almost blind.”

• Ammu

• Mammachi

• Baby Kochamma

• Kochu Maria

1. “Would I do that? You tell me, would [I] ever do that? It must’ve been my Long-lost Twin brother.”

• Velutha

• Chacko

• Comrade Pillai

• Estha

1. “How marvelous! It’s a sort of sniffing! Do the Men and Women do it to each other too?”

• Ammu

• Sophie Mol

• Margaret Kochamma

• Baby Kochamma

1. “It was a perfectly legitimate question and I think Ammu ought to apologize.”

• Mammachi

• Rahel

• Chacko

• Baby Kochamma

“That man will be our Nemesis… Mark my words.”

• Baby Kochamma

• Margaret Kochamma

• Comrade Pillai

• Chacko

1. “See her? When she grows up, she’ll be our Kochamma, and she’ll raise our salaries and give us nylon saris for Onam.”

• Rahel

• Sophie Mol

• Kochu Maria

• Velutha

1. “Let’s leave one alive so that it can be lonely.”

• Rahel

• Sophie Mol

• Ammu

• Mammachi

"Liar and pretender. I did see you . You were a Communist and had a shirt and flag. And you ignored me."

• Rahel

• Estha

• Sophie Mol

• Ammu

"Must we behave like some God forsaken tribe that's just been discovered?"

• Ammu

• Velutha

• Chacko

• Baby Kochamma

"Your beloved Velutha - whom else? Ask him where he was yesterday. Let's bell that cat once and for all."

• Baby Kochamma

• Mammachi

• Ammu

• Chacko