Amarasinghe Quotes & Sayings

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds. — John Berger

In the politics of consent, no victory is ever permanent unless the victor makes it firm on a base of persuasion. — Theodore H. White

NO ADMISSION FOR ADMISSION. — Amit Abraham

I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes. — Craig Johnson

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world. — Saoirse Ronan

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade. — Nirmala Srivastava

part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing. — M.F. Moonzajer

At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves. — Peadar O'Guilin

We might be fifty, we might be five,
So snug, so compact, so wise are we!
Under the kitchen-table leg
My knee is pressing against his knee. — Katherine Mansfield

Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open - not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live. — Elizabeth Lesser

Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives. — Ruta Sepetys

I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot. — Nate Berkus

Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.
I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die. — A.E. Housman

I had been in love before, but never found it necessary. — Jodi LaPalm