Arundhati-roy Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image ““Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arundhati-roy Fiction Goodbye
“We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“A simple hi, can save someone from saying goodbye. Bye is a frightening word, more than the exit from our world.” — Dixon James Melitt Copy Share Image
“I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It’s especially problematic,… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every… — Dani Atkins Copy Share Image
“Love everyone to your highest capacity. It will bring peace in your heart if you should ever have to say goodbye.” — Tammy L. Krause Copy Share Image
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...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
“Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply. 'Women bear… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 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 of herself.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down the street… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image