“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
Suzanna Arundhati Roy é uma escritora, novelista e activista anti-globalização indiana. Foi a primeira pessoa indiana a vencer o Man Booker Prize pela sua primeira novela, O Deus das Pequenas Coisas, em 1997. Em 2002 venceu o Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. É uma activista dos direitos humanos e causas ambientais . Wikipedia
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
Fonte: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005), p. 86
Fonte: War Talk
“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”
Fonte: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf, given at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM, 29 Sep 2002.
Speeches
Fonte: War Talk
“There is only one dream worth having…to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.”
From a speech entitled Come September http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/politics/comeSeptember.pdf.
Speeches
Fonte: The Cost of Living
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
“Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
Fonte: The God of Small Things
“Some things come with their own punishments.”
Fonte: The God of Small Things