By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the… — 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
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On… — 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
