Arundhati Roy quotes - page 3

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. (Arundhati Roy)
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. View quote
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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. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. View quote
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If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win. View quote
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And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. View quote
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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. View quote
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As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared. View quote
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Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. View quote
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Humans are animals of habit. View quote
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Her grief grieved her. His devastated her. View quote
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With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe. (Arundhati Roy)
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside. View quote
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One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less. View quote
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Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds. View quote
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Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. View quote
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Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway. View quote
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Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. View quote
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It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. View quote
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I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. View quote
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By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze. View quote
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Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. (Arundhati Roy)
He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination? View quote
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The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable. View quote
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Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us. View quote
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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with. View quote
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