Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

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.

Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...

This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.

I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

Data is great, but strategy is better

It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.