Joanna

“If suicide bombers knew they end up in the same waiting room with all their victims,’ says the ghoul in her slithery voice, ‘they may think twice.”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“Do animals get an afterlife? Or is their punishment to be reborn as human?”
― Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

“The dosage of my antidepressant is such that I haven’t cried actual tears in a decade, but there are times when I want so badly to cry that I make all the noises of crying, press my fists into my eyes so I feel something similar. The absence of tears hurts more—or makes whatever hurts hurt more—than if I could just sob.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You