602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn’t make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain.

Oddly, neglect seemed to have resulted in an accidental release of the spirit.

Do you make all your life’s big decisions based on mobile phone videos?

Of course, there’s an alternative to terrorism: it’s called justice.

That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous.

We need an updated insurance plan against our won basic natures.

The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber. It was this that grew inside her, and eventually led her to love by night the man her children loved.

Politeness. Obedience. Loyalty. Intelligence. Courtesy. Efficiency.