Quotes by : Nayomi Munaweera

In these myriad ways, we carved out our lives in Los Angeles. Yet falling asleep was often an act of....

They hate me because I am the worst thing possible. I am the bad mother.But here's a secret: in America....

Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or....

Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely.....

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary,....

There is a certain new ferocity in her eyes now. A certain new thing that was not there before. I recognize....

The campus spreads around him like the verdant pleasure garden of an ancient king. He is enraptured by....

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

Farther out beyond the reef, where the coral gives way to the true deep, at a certain time of day a tribe....

In Sri Lanka, when two strangers meet, they ask a series of questions that reveal family, ancestral village,....