A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Chances are that whatever that you are worried about—be it a person or a thing—isn’t worried about you.

Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

Frienship is eros...without wings

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

Aside from being a fighter, I am a relaxed person. It is a lifestyle thing for me. I don't stress too much.