Best Arundhati Roy Lines
- Old. A viable die-able age. Able
- People always loved best what they identified most with. Always Loved
- Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. Bottled
- There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. Feet
- She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She… Carried
- When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked… Ache
- Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different… All
- Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes… Ammu
- The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an… Accountable
- He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her.… Feel
- They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both… Abandoned
- Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. Coloured
- Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking… All
- They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that… Ahead
- What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living. Came
- NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are… Anger
- 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 wrenched… Aching
- Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad… Allowed
- His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back. Bent
- There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. Deliberately
- Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them. Learned
- It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their… Administer
- 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. Alive
- The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons,… Buy
- Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. Bits
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