How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Somehow, by not mentioning his name, she knew that she had drawn him into the tousled intimacy of that blue cross-stitch afternoon and the song from the tangerine transistor. By not mentioning his name, she sensed that a pact had been forged between her Dream and the World. And that the midwives of that pact were, or would be, her sawdust-coated two-egg twins.
She knew who he was – the God of Loss, the God of Small Things. Of course she did. (11.70-71)
Ammu has a dream about falling in love with a man unknown to her, who she calls The God of Small Things. She realizes that it's Velutha that she was dreaming about.
Quote #11
Estha nodded down at Ammu's face tilted up to the train window. At Rahel, small and smudged with station dirt. All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death. (20.12)
All three of them – Ammu, Rahel, and Estha – loved Velutha, and none of them were supposed to. His loss becomes all the more painful because it's likely that, if not for them, he probably wouldn't have died. It was because they loved Velutha that they involved him in their lives. And it was because they involved him in their lives that he died.