There is nothing that pleases me more than a beautiful sentence ... It is something that satisfies me.
Arundhati RoyThere's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
Arundhati RoyHeaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.
Arundhati RoyBiology 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.
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