Rusiru Ekanayaka

“Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don’t know something, go to the library and look it up.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“People, he told her, are shaped somehow by their climate and the land they live in. Those who live by the sea are like the currents and tides; they go and come, and discover many shores. Their words and loves are like water that slips between one's fingers and is never still. Mountain people have fought the mountain to win their place. Once they have conquered it they protect their mountain, and others coming from far below in the valley risk being seen as enemies. Hill people take some time before greeting each other.”
― Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North