Arundhati Roy Quotes

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

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.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

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.

Things can change in a day.

D’you know what happens when you hurt people?’ Ammu said. ‘When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Some things come with their own punishments.

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

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.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening