Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

But bad luck makes good stories.

We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

Actually, who are you not to be?

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.