Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.