Nayomi Munaweera Quotes

We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.

When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.

Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.

Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.

She's Tamil. That's enough. They take our land, our jobs. If we let them they will take the whole country.

This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

I lie there in the magic grove, being hummed at by trees with ancient memories, lulled by their stately breath, held in the embrace of their roots.

On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure.