Akil Kumarasamy > Quotes

“The refugees continued to cross the sea and we tried to map out the violence, the peaks and the falls, through time. When does a war begin? Is it with a public declaration broadcast in the morning hours in the president’s voice, or is it more private, watching your village burn down, your family slaughtered in their sleep by salaried soldiers?”
― Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

“As children we saw blissful awareness in everything. We carried stones in our pockets like small, unformed eggs. If we stood still, with our heads tilted up to the midday sun, we became trees. Turning to the open face of a hibiscus flower, we spoke all our fears, smothered ourselves in pollen kisses. We could not recall when the world turned solid and we lost that easy connection with nature, but all these months we had been trying to return”
― Akil Kumarasamy, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea