602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Excitement always leads to tears.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

Use your art to fight.

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 the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.