And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm… — 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
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that… — 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
