602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

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 a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?

The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power. The battle of the poor and the powerless is one of reclamation, not renunciation.

If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked."Does what count?""The happiness does it count?

If you're happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count?' Estha asked.'Does what count?''The happiness—does it count?'She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Because the truth is, that only what /counts/ counts.The simple, unswerving truth of children.If you eat fish in a dream, does it count? Does it mean you've eaten fish?

Ese era el problema con los parientes. Al igual que los médicos aviesos, sabían dónde hacer más daño al tocar.

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.

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 complicated relationship with that word.

Once you have fallen off the edge like all of us have, you will never stop falling. And as you fall you will hold on to other falling people. The sooner you understand that the better. This place where we live, where we made our home, is the place of falling people. Here there is baqeeqat. Arre, even we aren't real. We don't really exist

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.