Sonali Deraniyagala Quotes

#1. I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start.

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#2. My boys. I don't have them to hold. What do I do with my arms?

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

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#4. I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back

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#8. There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.

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#9. Maybe it is not so overwhelming after all, to dissolve the divide between now and then.

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#10. 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.

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#11. How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.

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#12. Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home.

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