Heart Quotes by Arundhati Roy

“I mean, it’s all a matter of your heart . . . NÂZIM HIKMET”

— Arundhati Roy

“She knew very well that she knew very well that she knew very well.”

— Arundhati Roy

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

— Arundhati Roy

“She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know”

— Arundhati Roy

“In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.”

— Arundhati Roy

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or…

— Arundhati Roy

“Faced with the Real World, she clung nervously to old remembered rules, and had no one but herself to rebel against.”

— Arundhati Roy

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no…

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“He had seen her through so much; he believed that if not he, then certainly music, would see her through this too.”

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“He sensed she was drifting on a tide that neither he nor she could do much about. He couldn't tell whether her…

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“It was herself she was exhausted by. She had lost the ability to keep her discrete worlds discrete—a skill that many consider…

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Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and…

— Arundhati Roy

“The complete absence of a desire to please, or to put someone at their ease, could, in a less vulnerable person, have…

— Arundhati Roy

“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

“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

“She gave the impression that she had somehow slipped off her leash. As though she was taking herself for a walk while…

— Arundhati Roy

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,…

— Arundhati Roy

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist…

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“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

“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

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of…

— Arundhati Roy