Arundhati Roy

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on…

— Arundhati Roy

“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a…

— Arundhati Roy

“You may be right after all," I said to him in the kitchen. "You may be right, but you'll never win." "I…

— Arundhati Roy

“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”

— Arundhati Roy

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to…

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There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or…

— Arundhati Roy

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

— Arundhati Roy

I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to…

— Arundhati Roy

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

— Arundhati Roy

“She said, “I’m not marrying anybody.” When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free…

— Arundhati Roy

“Everybody watched. Nobody stopped them.”

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I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm…

— Arundhati Roy

I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe…

— Arundhati Roy

“For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accommodate all its organs.”

— Arundhati Roy

“She remembered reading somewhere that even after people died, their hair and nails kept growing. Like starlight, travelling through the universe long…

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What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to…

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An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever…

— Arundhati Roy

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

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

— Arundhati Roy

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

— Arundhati Roy

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

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Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water…

— Arundhati Roy

“The traffic inside her head seemed to have stopped believing in traffic lights. The result was incessant noise, a few bad crashes…

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“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little…

— Arundhati Roy

“Bog je zamenjen Marksom, Satana buržoazijom, raj besklasnim društvom, a crkva partijom, dok su vrsta i cilj putovanja ostali slični. Trka s…

— Arundhati Roy