Parami Peiris

“...[T]he oldest and most devastating pain there is: not the pain of childhood, but the remembrance of it.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“I had first come to appreciate precision as a form of love during my time as a zoology student, under Sir's tutelage, but since those days I had found it in other, unexpected places, I saw it in that room, in that girl. Her attention to each devasted mother was total, her eyes huge and focused.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

“I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

“When it came to me, Mrs Roy taught me how to think, then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me