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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
― Richard Siken

“He'd say, "Don't be scared, Vik. It's good when it's all really black. You can see your dreams better.”
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave

“And everywhere, on bare ground and between cracks in the floors, tiny pink and white flowers that flourish along the seashore forced their way up. Mini mal, or graveyard flowers, they are called. I resented this renewal. How dare you heal.”
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave

“And I cringe to be bereft in a way that cannot be imagined, even though I do wonder how impossible this really is.”
― Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave