602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

My writing is translated into every Indian language, it’s distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it’s everywhere. So it’s a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.

Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.

The word Hijra, she said, meant a Body in which a Holy Soul lives.

I am weary of worldly gatherings, O Lord What pleasure in them, when the light in my heart is gone? From the clamor of crowds I flee, my heart seeks The kind of silence that would mesmerize speech itself.

No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it.

She knew very well that she knew very well that she knew very well.

Reading Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar bridges the gap between what most Indians are schooled to believe in and the reality we experience every day of our lives.

It had to do with the way she lived, in the country of her own skin. A country that issued no visas and seemed to have no consulates.

Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone's co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.