602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

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

Om bhur bhuvah svaha Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo devasya dhimahi Dhiyo yo nah pracodayat O God, thou art the giver of life, Remover of pain and sorrow, Bestower of happiness, O Creator of the Universe, May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light, May thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

I use the word love loosely, and only because my vocabulary is unequal to the task of describing the precise nature of that maze, that forest of feelings.

Rahel drifted into marriage like a passenger drifts towards an unoccupied chair in an airport lounge.

In the end it didn’t matter of course.

Who was he mourning? She didn’t know. A whole generation maybe.

The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

It could be argued that it began long before Christianity arrived in a boat and seeped into Kerala like tea from a teabag.