Arundhati Roy : Quotes and Captions

• “That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

 

• “If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?”

 

• “This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”

 

• “Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”

 

• “The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”

 

• “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

 

• “He 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.”

 

• “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.”

 

• “Things can change in a day.”

• “Some things come with their own punishments.”

 

• “I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”

 

• “Humans are animals of habit.”

 

• “He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.”

 

• “She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know”

 

• “Old. A viable die-able age.”

 

• “Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”

 

• “Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles…”

 

• “Let’s leave one alive so that it can be lonely.”

 

• “Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.”

• “His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.”

 

• “Love, after all, is the ingredient that separates a sacrifice from ordinary, everyday butchery.”

 

• “One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.”

 

• “Sleep came to them, quick and easy, like money to millionaires.”

 

• “From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”

 

• “Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.”

 

• “When you recreate the image of man, why repeat God’s mistakes?”

 

• “Destroying us. You are constructing us. It’s yourselves that you are destroying.”

 

• “She knew very well that she knew very well that she knew very well.”

 

• “She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.”

 

• “She wasn’t a woman who smiled and said hello.”