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His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.
— Arundhati Roy
She woke to the sound of his heart knocking against his chest. As though it was searching for a way out.
— Arundhati Roy
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
— Arundhati Roy
And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
— Arundhati Roy
The truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.
— Arundhati Roy
crashing through the world like a falling stone. It is his color and his light. It is the vessel into which he pours
— Arundhati Roy
Questions signified a vulgar display of ignorance.
— Arundhati Roy
Silence hung in the air like secret loss.
— Arundhati Roy
![Arundhati Quotes By Arundhati Roy: [Are we] far more comfortable with the idea](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/arundhati-quotes-by-arundhati-roy-1446687.jpg "Arundhati Quotes By Arundhati Roy: [Are we] far more comfortable with the idea")
[Are we] far more comfortable with the idea of poor people killing themselves in despair than with the idea of them fighting back?
— Arundhati Roy
Acceptance spells death to a writer.
— Arundhati Roy
When you recreate the image of man, why repeat God's mistakes?
— Arundhati Roy
Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.
— Arundhati Roy
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.
— Arundhati Roy
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 it in her hair.
— Arundhati Roy
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
— Arundhati Roy
Some days he walked along the banks of the river that smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans.
— Arundhati Roy
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.
— Arundhati Roy
For the first time in her life, Tilo felt that her body had enough room to accomodate all of its organs.
— Arundhati Roy
.. how history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.
— Arundhati Roy
![Arundhati Quotes By Arundhati Roy: [Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/arundhati-quotes-by-arundhati-roy-496003.jpg "Arundhati Quotes By Arundhati Roy: [Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.")
From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.
— Arundhati Roy
In a determined reversal of her inherent nature, Kochu Maria now, as a policy, hardly ever believed anything that anybody said.
— Arundhati Roy
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
— Arundhati Roy
To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.
— Arundhati Roy
Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it's time to use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates.
— Arundhati Roy
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
Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.
— Arundhati Roy
Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.
— Arundhati Roy
Argentina & Iraq have been decimated by the same process with different weapons; an IMF cheque & cruise missiles.
— Arundhati Roy
Democracy is the Free World's whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes.
— Arundhati Roy
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
— Arundhati Roy
Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.
— Arundhati Roy
Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest.
— Arundhati Roy
She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know
— Arundhati Roy
It helps to remember that nobody likes to be managed. But everybody longs to be included.
— Arundhati Subramaniam
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
— Arundhati Roy
All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death.
— Arundhati Roy
![Arundhati Quotes By Arundhati Roy: [b.] be prepared to be prepared.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/arundhati-quotes-by-arundhati-roy-195542.jpg "Arundhati Quotes By Arundhati Roy: [b.] be prepared to be prepared.")
[b.] be prepared to be prepared.
— Arundhati Roy
He gathered her into the cave of his body. (Roy,338)
— Arundhati Roy
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
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
— Arundhati Roy
I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.
— Arundhati Roy
the connection between GDP growth and jobs is a myth.
— Arundhati Roy
Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists
— Arundhati Roy
Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?
— Arundhati Roy
Some things come with their own punishments.
— Arundhati Roy
Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They ... gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.
— Arundhati Roy
The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.
— Arundhati Roy
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
— Arundhati Roy
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
— Arundhati Roy
Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.
— Arundhati Roy
Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed.
— Arundhati Roy
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
— Arundhati Roy
Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral? — Arundhati Roy
It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag.
— Arundhati Roy
Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.
— Arundhati Roy
Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
— Arundhati Roy
they asked the poor what it was like to be poor, the hungry what it was like to be hungry, the homeless what it was like to be homeless.
— Arundhati Roy
I'm Popeye the sailor man dum dum I live in a cara-van dum dum I op-en the door And fall-on the floor I'm Popeye the sailor man dum dum
— Arundhati Roy
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
— Arundhati Roy
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.
— Arundhati Roy
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
— Arundhati Roy
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
— Arundhati Roy
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
— Arundhati Roy
Excitement Always Leads to Tears.
— Arundhati Roy
If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.
— Arundhati Roy
India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.
— Arundhati Bhattacharya
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
— Arundhati Roy
The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.
— Arundhati Roy
Things can change in a day.
— Arundhati Roy
I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.
— Arundhati Roy
And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss.
— Arundhati Roy
Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
— Arundhati Roy
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
— Arundhati Roy
