Top 28 Rahel Quotes
#1. By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.
Arundhati Roy
#2. Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the sky, silver for the jets, and brushes, and thinner.
Arundhati Roy
#3. Rahel never wrote to him. There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself.
Arundhati Roy
#4. On Rahel's heart Pappachi's moth snapped open its somber wings. Out. In. And lifted its legs. Up. Down.
Arundhati Roy
#5. It had been quiet in Estha's head until Rahel came. But with her she had brought the sound of passing trains, and the light and shade and light and shade that falls on you if you have a window seat
Arundhati Roy
#6. Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.
Arundhati Roy
#7. Rahel's "list" was an attempt to order chaos. She revised it constantly, torn forever between love and duty. It was by no means a true gauge of her feelings.
Arundhati Roy
#8. If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and drink.
Jane Kurtz
#9. It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gun-fire.
Arundhati Roy
#10. Rahel knew that this had happened because she had been hoping that it wouldn't. She hadn't learned to control her Hopes yet.
Arundhati Roy
#11. Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest.
Arundhati Roy
#12. Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world
Arundhati Roy
#13. Rahel's toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place).
Arundhati Roy
#15. Live a life of love, of passion of desire, of free will. Take a chance, take the leap, and jump head first into the abyss. Start a flame in your bonfire
heart, and show the world your passion.
Steven Aitchison
#16. There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.
Steven Soderbergh
#17. One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians ... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.
Pauline Marois
#18. Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar.
Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.
Arundhati Roy
#20. One beach-colored.
One brown.
One Loved.
One Loved a Little Less.
Arundhati Roy
#22. First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant fame. I was just a kid from Sweden, I didn't know what was going on.
Dolph Lundgren
#23. The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#24. What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.
Rahel Varnhagen
#25. You are never really with a person unless you are alone with him.
Rahel Varnhagen
#26. In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
Jonas Mekas
#27. The lesson Arendt drew was that a beautiful soul is not enough, for "it was precisely the soul for which life showed no consideration." To live fully and securely, every human being needs what Arendt calls "specificity," the social and political status that comes with full membership in a community.
Adam Kirsch
#28. Let strength and wisdom carry you forward beyond the limited horizons - you may have once envisioned.
Eleesha
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