Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. — 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
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights… — 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
