Widya Kumarasinghe

“The sleep was like as it had been cut out from a slab of clay, round and clean.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“It feels like I’m trapped inside my body. It decides when I get hungry, and when I’ll get my period. From birth to death, you have to keep eating and making money just to stay alive.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Light spilled off every surface. The light of day. I meditated on this phrase and stared into the radiance.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Being close to someone meant more than being next to them after all, it meant more than simply having spent a lot of time with them. Being close to someone meant the entire rhythm of that person's life was synchronized with yours, it meant that each body had to learn how to respond to the other instinctually, to its gestures and mannerisms, to the subtle changes in the cadence of its speech and gait, so that all the movements of one person had gradually come to be in subconscious harmony with those of the other.”
― Anuk Arudpragasam, The Story of a Brief Marriage