Arundhati Roy Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• 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

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Forever

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.19, Penguin Books India

• Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.

  Arundhati Roy

  Pain, Taken, Body

  FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Feb 25, 2017

• Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Gun

  Arundhati Roy (1999). “The cost of living”, HarperCollins

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