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“What are the odds of being born in a war-torn shithole? Considering most of the planet lives on nothing, and considering there’s never being an era of peace in all of recorded history, you’d say pretty high.”

“All bad things have happened already. It cannot get worse than this.”

This statement is equal part comforting and terrifying.

“Evil is not what we should fear. Creatures with power acting in their own interest: that is what should make us shudder.”

“The thing that makes you the most Sri Lankan is not your father’s surname or the holy place where you kneel, nor the smile you plaster on your face to hide your fears. It the knowing of other Lankans and those Lankans’ Lankans.”

Funny how Asian and African cultures sometime share similarities.