Deraniyagala Quotes & Sayings

I'm the biggest draw in the sport, and I'm a woman. — Ronda Rousey

Seven years on, and their absence has expanded. Just as our life would have in this time, it has swelled. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Maybe it is not so overwhelming after all, to dissolve the divide between now and then. — Sonali Deraniyagala

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I think I also don't confess because I am still so unbelieving of what happened. I am still aghast. I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself ... I can see though that my secrecy does me no favors. It probably makes worse my sense of being outlandish. It confirms to me that it might be abhorrent, my story, or that few can relate to it. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Dear Lord, I struggle caring too much about the opinions of others. I beg You to please whisper words of truth into my heart and mind today. Protect me from both the bad and good opinions of others as I am reminded that only Your opinion counts. In Jesus' name. Amen. — Lysa TerKeurst

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I was held for a few moments in the coherence and safety of the life we had, when so much seemed predictable. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back — Sonali Deraniyagala

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. — Voltaire

I steer clear of telling. I can't come out with it; the outlandish truth of me. How can I reveal this to someone innocent and unsuspecting? With those who know my story I talk freely about us ... but with others I keep it hidden, the truth. I keep it under wraps because I don't want to shock or make anyone distressed ... I try to keep a distance from those who are innocent of my reality. At best I am vague. I feel deceitful at times, but I can't just drop it on someone, I feel. It's too horrifying, too huge. — Sonali Deraniyagala

And as the wind gusted against those windows, I saw how, in an instant, I lost my shelter. This truth had hardly escaped me until then, far from it, but the clarity of that moment was overwhelming. And I am still shaking. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start. — Sonali Deraniyagala

Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home In my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! It was not the last time that he wished that! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Their voices have doubled in strength now, not faded with time. Their chatter plays with my thoughts no end. And I am sustained by this, it gives me spark. — Sonali Deraniyagala

There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere. — Sonali Deraniyagala

My boys. I don't have them to hold. What do I do with my arms? — Sonali Deraniyagala

Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue. — T.C. Boyle

How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief. — Sonali Deraniyagala