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Meaning
The speaker describes an immediate, overpowering attraction that feels physical and lasting. The feeling is so intense that it seems to leave part of the speaker permanently attached to the other person.
When It Was Said
2017
Who It Was Said To
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Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
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Listed on Arundhati Roy's Wikiquote page without a cited source, so it is attributed rather than verified.
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About Arundhati Roy
Indian author and political activist
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and political activist. She is best known for her novel The God of Small Things, published in 1997, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction that year and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. Her work and public life have also been shaped by her activism on human rights and environmental issues. In 2024, she won the PEN Pinter Prize from English PEN, and she chose the imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the Writer of Courage with whom to share the award.
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Books by Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
1997
Field Notes on Democracy
2010
Things that can and cannot be said
2016
The End of Imagination
2019
Walking with the comrades
2012