Parami Peiris

“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

“You must understand: There is no single day on which a war begins. The conflict will collect around you gradually, the way carrion birds assemble around the vulnerable, until there are so many predators that the object of their hunger is not even visible. You will not even be able to see yourself in the gathering crowd of those who would kill you.”
― 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

“I cannot believe how much pain we are asked to bear when we are alive. How, even if there is a way, no one can show us how to live with it.”
― Amy Lin, Here After