602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

She thought of Chacko’s laugh, and a smile stayed in her eyes for a long time.

The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector.

For the Time Being they had no surname because Ammu was considering reverting to her maiden name, though she said that choosing between her husband‘s name and her fathers name didn’t give a woman much of a choice.

Hide!′ she whispered. ‘The vegetarians are coming.

Nilekani’s technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

People often don’t understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to power. If it is the corporations that are powerful, then they will be corrupt.

Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest.

How history negotiates its terms and collects its dues from those who break its laws.

Crashing through the world like a falling stone. It is his color and his light. It is the vessel into which he pours.