The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Arundhati Roy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.”
“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”
“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”
“She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in some strange tangential way, he needed her shade as much as she needed his. And she had learned from experience that Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”
“They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle- the smoke of her into the solidness of him, the solitariness of her into the gathering of him, the strangeness of her into the straightforwardness of him, the insouciance of her into the restraint of him. The quietness of her into the quietness of him.”
“Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty.”
“She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know”
“Love, after all, is the ingredient that separates a sacrifice from ordinary, everyday butchery.”
“Normality in our part of the world is a bit like a boiled egg: its humdrum surface conceals at its heart a yolk of egregious violence. It is our constant anxiety about that violence, our memory of its past labours and our dread of its future manifestations, that lays down the rules for how a people as complex and as diverse as we continue to coexist – continue to live together, tolerate each other and, from time to time, murder one another. As long as the centre holds, as long as the yolk doesn’t run, we’ll be fine. In moments of crisis it helps to take the long view.”
“Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...”
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