602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Going to Oxford didn’t necessarily make a person clever.

All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death.

The fact is that America’s weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just “human rights,” and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced.

Dark of Heartness tiptoed into the Heart of Darkness.

It’s a battle of those who know how to think against those who know how to hate. A battle of lovers against haters. It’s an unequal battle, because the love is on the street and vulnerable. The hate is on the street, too, but it is armed to the teeth, and protected by all the machinery of the state.

She wasn’t a woman who smiled and said hello.

Margaret Kochamma found herself drawn towards him like a plant in a dark room towards a wedge of light.

Estha carried them home in the crowded train. A quite bubble floating in a sea of noise.