To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

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.

Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

The act of respecting a girl is more beautiful than saying her beautiful.-Santosh Pyasa

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

For those who have never seen me live, you kinda need to check me out.

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

Driving is the only thing I love about F1.

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.

My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.