Best Arundhati Roy Quotations
- May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in… Air
- Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs… Bombing
- It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over… Alive
- They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… Blink
- It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it.… Aloof
- A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest.… Air
- Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that… Bits
- Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. Been
- Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. Baroque
- When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had… Baggage
- They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and… All
- The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the… Activism
- Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way… Aching
- Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought… Ammu
- Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love.… All
- It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. Curious
- Rahel’s toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could… According
- The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke. Body
- It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened Became
- He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put… Fear
- 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 fear of women,… Born
- I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. Adult
- It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very… Boring
- I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a… Allows
- I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that… Bust
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