Top 10 Anuk Arudpragasam Quotes (2024 Update)

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “But if they couldn’t talk about their pasts, what could they say to each other at all, given that there was no future for them to speak of either?”

1. “But if they couldn’t talk about their pasts, what could they say to each other at all, given that there was no future for them to speak of either?”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “Wherever they were headed in particular, though, in a general sense people were always either moving towards their homes or away, either directly or by means of intermediate destinations.”

2. “Wherever they were headed in particular, though, in a general sense people were always either moving towards their homes or away, either directly or by means of intermediate destinations.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “Things just happen and we have to accept them. Happiness and sadness are for people who can control what happens to them.”

3. “Things just happen and we have to accept them. Happiness and sadness are for people who can control what happens to them.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “Being close to someone meant the entire rhythm of that person’s life was synchronized with yours, it meant that each body had learned how to respond to the other instinctually, to its gestures and mannerisms, to the subtle changes in the cadence of its speech and gait, so that all the movements of one person had gradually come to be in subconscious harmony with those of the other.”

4. “Being close to someone meant the entire rhythm of that person’s life was synchronized with yours, it meant that each body had learned how to respond to the other instinctually, to its gestures and mannerisms, to the subtle changes in the cadence of its speech and gait, so that all the movements of one person had gradually come to be in subconscious harmony with those of the other.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the last hopes and promises of the day too were disappearing from view, another day coming and going with nothing to show for itself.”

5. “There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the last hopes and promises of the day too were disappearing from view, another day coming and going with nothing to show for itself.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “In ordinary life people were always carrying things, it seemed.”

6. “In ordinary life people were always carrying things, it seemed.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “Conversation was a fragile thing after all, like a plant that grows only in rich, warm, nourishing soil.”

7. “Conversation was a fragile thing after all, like a plant that grows only in rich, warm, nourishing soil.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “Thoughts, feelings, and conjectures, stories, jokes, and slander were nothing but thinly spun threads that tied the insides of people together long after speaking had ended, so that communities were nothing more than humans held together in this way, in large, intricate, imperceptible webs whose function was not so much to restrict movement as to connect each individual to every other.”

8. “Thoughts, feelings, and conjectures, stories, jokes, and slander were nothing but thinly spun threads that tied the insides of people together long after speaking had ended, so that communities were nothing more than humans held together in this way, in large, intricate, imperceptible webs whose function was not so much to restrict movement as to connect each individual to every other.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “The freedom that Kuttimani desired, the freedom that perhaps all liberation movements sought, was not just the freedom that came when one could move freely over the land on which one’s forbears lived, not just the freedom that came from being able to choose and be responsible for one’s own life, but the freedom that came when one had access to a horizon, when one felt that the possible worlds that glimmered at its edges were within one’s reach.”

9. “The freedom that Kuttimani desired, the freedom that perhaps all liberation movements sought, was not just the freedom that came when one could move freely over the land on which one’s forbears lived, not just the freedom that came from being able to choose and be responsible for one’s own life, but the freedom that came when one had access to a horizon, when one felt that the possible worlds that glimmered at its edges were within one’s reach.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “Most children have two whole legs and two whole arms but this little six-year-old that Dinesh was carrying had already lost one leg, the right one from the lower thigh down, and was now about to lose his right arm.”

10. “Most children have two whole legs and two whole arms but this little six-year-old that Dinesh was carrying had already lost one leg, the right one from the lower thigh down, and was now about to lose his right arm.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “It had been in those months of waiting probably that he’d first become aware of the absence inside him, the longing for a life that existed beyond the boundaries of the Colombo and Sri Lanka he knew, an absence that he hadn’t felt as an absence so much as a kind of willingness to be drawn elsewhere, an absence that made him, paradoxically, more present to the world around him, more delicately aware of its surfaces and textures and moods.”

11. “It had been in those months of waiting probably that he’d first become aware of the absence inside him, the longing for a life that existed beyond the boundaries of the Colombo and Sri Lanka he knew, an absence that he hadn’t felt as an absence so much as a kind of willingness to be drawn elsewhere, an absence that made him, paradoxically, more present to the world around him, more delicately aware of its surfaces and textures and moods.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “When the practical concerns of life had been dealt with, when all one’s plans had been settled, what was left, really, for anybody to say?”

12. “When the practical concerns of life had been dealt with, when all one’s plans had been settled, what was left, really, for anybody to say?”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “He couldn’t help thinking, as the train hurtled closer toward his destination, that he’d traversed not any physical distance that day but rather some vast psychic distance inside him, that he’d been advancing not from the island’s south to its north but from the south of his mind to its own distant northern reaches.”

13. “He couldn’t help thinking, as the train hurtled closer toward his destination, that he’d traversed not any physical distance that day but rather some vast psychic distance inside him, that he’d been advancing not from the island’s south to its north but from the south of his mind to its own distant northern reaches.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam Quote: “To desire, in a sense, was to know or think one knew what one wanted, to know or think one knew the paths by which it might be reached, even if those paths turned out to be too difficult to follow, even if the things they led to, the things one desired, turned out not to provide the liberation one thought.”

14. “To desire, in a sense, was to know or think one knew what one wanted, to know or think one knew the paths by which it might be reached, even if those paths turned out to be too difficult to follow, even if the things they led to, the things one desired, turned out not to provide the liberation one thought.”

— Anuk Arudpragasam

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