But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living. Graveyards sprang… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic -… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Glanced up and caught Ammu's gaze. Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment. History was wrong-footed, caught off guard. Sloughed off like an… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Love, after all, is the ingredient that separates a sacrifice from ordinary, everyday butchery.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“But Tilo had crept up on him, and become a kind of compulsion, an addiction almost. Addiction has its own mnemonics –… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“it could be argued that it actually began thousands of years ago. Long before the Marxists came. Before the British took Malabar,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — 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 Image
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 Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
