Truth Quote by Arundhati Roy — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipling to love her children before putting them to bed: We be of one blood, though and I. Her goodnight kiss. The way she held their faces steady with one hand (squashed-cheeked, fish-mouthed) while she parted and combed their hair with the other. The way she held knickers out for Rahel to climb into. Left leg, right leg. All this was fed to the beast, and it was satisfied.”

“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.”

“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.”

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.”

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”

“Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark”

“Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.”

“Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.”