“She knew very well that she knew very well that she knew very well.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“He had seen her through so much; he believed that if not he, then certainly music, would see her through this too.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Faced with the Real World, she clung nervously to old remembered rules, and had no one but herself to rebel against.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It was herself she was exhausted by. She had lost the ability to keep her discrete worlds discrete—a skill that many consider… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The complete absence of a desire to please, or to put someone at their ease, could, in a less vulnerable person, have… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“He sensed she was drifting on a tide that neither he nor she could do much about. He couldn't tell whether her… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Although she missed the singing by the children from the school opposite her apartment, she didn't teach her own pupils to sing… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She gave the impression that she had somehow slipped off her leash. As though she was taking herself for a walk while… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know. How to un-know,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
