Arundhati RoyIt is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.351Truth
Arundhati RoyThe people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution. ✨ Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be … ▶374Humanity
Arundhati RoyHe folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things,… ▶341Reading
Arundhati RoyCapitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble… ▶331HopeTimeTruth
Arundhati RoyWhen you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a … ▶353Humanity
Arundhati RoyA sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed h… ▶343DeathHumorReading
Arundhati RoyOld. A viable die-able age.321Death
Arundhati RoyAnything's possible in Human Nature, Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. Love. Madness. … ▶321HopeHumanityLove
Arundhati RoyThe only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2016). The End of Imagination, p.5… ▶354DeathLifeReading
Arundhati RoySome things come with their own punishments. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.115, Penguin Books India354Reading
Arundhati RoyI'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money… ▶322HumanityThoughtTime
Arundhati RoyIt is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladie… ▶311DeathLoveThought
Arundhati RoyInsanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.207, Penguin Books India356Reading
Arundhati RoyThe 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… ▶378Truth
Arundhati RoyShe wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims. ✨ Fa… ▶356Reading
Arundhati RoyPerhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvage… ▶367LifePhilosophyReading
Arundhati RoyThe only thing worth globalizing is dissent. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2016). The End of Imagination, p.193, Haymarket Books345Reading
Arundhati RoyAmmu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want… ▶335HumanityLoveReading
Arundhati RoyThe mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all. ✨ David Bar… ▶346Reading
Arundhati RoyAmmu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to. ✨ The God of Small Things. Book by Arundhati Roy, 1997.324HumanityReading
Arundhati RoyI think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. ✨ What's exciting is that writing has become a weapon. Interview with Tim Adams, www… ▶335Thought
Arundhati RoyThey were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood … ▶369Humanity
Arundhati RoyThe secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit com… ▶303DeathLoveReading
Arundhati RoyMargaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The… ▶325LifeReading
Arundhati RoyTo call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inabilit… ▶281Love
Arundhati RoyIf you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. Does what count? The happiness does it count?. She knew exactly what he meant, her son with his spoiled puff. Beca… ▶336Truth
Arundhati RoyThey looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter. ✨ Arundhat… ▶326ReadingThoughtTime
Arundhati RoyAcceptance spells death to a writer.337Death
Arundhati RoyThis was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2002). The God of Small Things, p.70, Penguin Books India348Reading
Arundhati RoyIt was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened315ThoughtTime
