Deraniyagala Quotes

#1. What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

-Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

#2. Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction ... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.

Leopold Stokowski

#3. The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer's personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

Emily Post

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

#5. Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

#7. 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

#8. I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

Shinzo Abe

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

#13. 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

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Sonali Deraniyagala

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

Sonali Deraniyagala