602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.

There are things that you can’t do – like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

Faced with the Real World, she clung nervously to old remembered rules, and had no one but herself to rebel against.

He sensed she was drifting on a tide that neither he nor she could do much about. He couldn’t tell whether her restlessness, her compulsive and increasingly unsafe wandering through the city, marked the onset of an unsoundness of mind or an acute, perilous kind of sanity. Or were they both the same thing?

I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about. That can’t be done in Kashmir. It’s not sophisticated, what happens here. There’s too much blood for good literature.

He broke the eggs but burned the omelette.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

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

To call someone ‘anti-American’, indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it’s a failure of the imagination.