Loving a Little Less

Something I read in the book, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, that I thought was pretty true.

"D'you know what happens when you hurt people?" Ammu said. "When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

More often than before, I really take what people say literally. I don't think it's always good. But I always (usually) place a lot of importance in words and what comes out of people's mouths. You live by what you say. It's very sacred, I think.