602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

These days in Kashmir, you can be killed for surviving.

Hope lies in texts that can accommodate and keep alive our intricacy, our complexity, and our density against the onslaught of the terrifying, sweeping simplifications of fascism.

She wasn’t beautiful in the way Bombay Silk was, but she was sexier, more intriguing, handsome in the way some women can be.

So on the days that the radio played Ammu’s songs, people avoided her, made little loops around her, because everybody agreed that it was best to just Let Her Be.

Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?

He made her feel as though the world belonged to them...

She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them.

Pigs are horses. Girls are boys. War is peace.

Reverend Ipe realized that his daughter had by now developed a “reputation” and was unlikely to find a husband. He decided that since she couldn’t have a husband there was no harm in her having an education.