Joya Maser

“I've watched your kind. Both as beast and as ghost. I can't understand why humans destroy when they can create. Such a waste.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“The wolf-dog shakes his head and the lady-dog glares at you and gives you three sharp barks before leaving the gallery.
You hear her parting words. 'If I am ever reborn human, I will swallow my umbilical.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“But laws are needed. Because made-up religions are not enough.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“You think of dead lakes overflowing with corpses, of police stations where the rich lock up the poor, of palaces where those who follow orders torture those who refuse to. You think of distraught lovers, abandoned friends and absent parents. Of lapsed treaties and photographs that are seen and forgotten, regardless of the walls they hang on. How the world will go on without you and forget you were even here. You think of the mother, the old man and the dog, of the things you did, or failed to do, for the ones you loved. You think about evil causes and about worthy ones. That the chances of violence ending violence are one in nothing, one in nada, one in squat.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida