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Top 20 Nayomi Munaweera Quotes (2025 Update)

Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “It is only in absence that the true weight of love is felt.”

1. “It is only in absence that the true weight of love is felt.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.”

2. “Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.”

3. “When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “It was something I learned then. That you could take the crumpled remains of something destroyed and smooth them into newness. You could pretend certain things weren’t happening even if you had seen or felt them. Everything done can be denied.”

4. “It was something I learned then. That you could take the crumpled remains of something destroyed and smooth them into newness. You could pretend certain things weren’t happening even if you had seen or felt them. Everything done can be denied.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.”

5. “Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.”

6. “This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Farther out beyond the reef, where the coral gives way to the true deep, at a certain time of day a tribe of flat silver fish gather in their thousands. To be there is to be surrounded by living shards of light. At a secret signal, all is chaos, a thousand mirrors shattering about him. Then the school speeds to sea and the boy is left in sedate water, a tug and pull of the body as comfortable as sitting in his father’s outspread sarong being sung to sleep.”

7. “Farther out beyond the reef, where the coral gives way to the true deep, at a certain time of day a tribe of flat silver fish gather in their thousands. To be there is to be surrounded by living shards of light. At a secret signal, all is chaos, a thousand mirrors shattering about him. Then the school speeds to sea and the boy is left in sedate water, a tug and pull of the body as comfortable as sitting in his father’s outspread sarong being sung to sleep.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “The sway in Mala’s waist, the curve of her hip beneath the folds of her sari, have caught the eye of many young men, each of whom is secretly willing to denounce the colonial prejudice of skin color by falling in love with her.”

8. “The sway in Mala’s waist, the curve of her hip beneath the folds of her sari, have caught the eye of many young men, each of whom is secretly willing to denounce the colonial prejudice of skin color by falling in love with her.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure.”

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

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Sometimes when I am by myself I miss the taste of our well. Water filtered through our small piece of earth, its exact mineral consistency, the taste of home. It is the only thing I allow myself to remember.”

10. “Sometimes when I am by myself I miss the taste of our well. Water filtered through our small piece of earth, its exact mineral consistency, the taste of home. It is the only thing I allow myself to remember.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “That was my breaking point. If they weren’t willing to save their own lives, I wasn’t going to drown with them.”

11. “That was my breaking point. If they weren’t willing to save their own lives, I wasn’t going to drown with them.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.”

12. “We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “She talks in her most sedate voice, attempting to alleviate out fears, soothe our anxiety. She knows that if we are to survive watching this war from a distance, as spectators, we do not have the privilege of indignation or anxiety.”

13. “She talks in her most sedate voice, attempting to alleviate out fears, soothe our anxiety. She knows that if we are to survive watching this war from a distance, as spectators, we do not have the privilege of indignation or anxiety.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel’s palm against her forehead. “A love marriage,” she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.”

14. “There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel’s palm against her forehead. “A love marriage,” she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.”

15. “Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “It has been one of the greatest blessings of my life that my sister has been able to mirror my experience.”

16. “It has been one of the greatest blessings of my life that my sister has been able to mirror my experience.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Three years after my birth, my mother swells again. When Lanka is born and brought home, Shiva and I gaze over the edge of the bassinet at this strange, alien creature and claim her as our own. We are a threesome from then on. Joined at the hip. A pyramid. A triangle.”

17. “Three years after my birth, my mother swells again. When Lanka is born and brought home, Shiva and I gaze over the edge of the bassinet at this strange, alien creature and claim her as our own. We are a threesome from then on. Joined at the hip. A pyramid. A triangle.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “But I’ll say this also. If you had looked closely enough, you would have seen. Most of us were damaged long ago, hurt in some tender place long, long before we were mothers. Wounded flowers, bruised even in their tight closed bud, bear bitter fruit. The prisons are full of us.”

18. “But I’ll say this also. If you had looked closely enough, you would have seen. Most of us were damaged long ago, hurt in some tender place long, long before we were mothers. Wounded flowers, bruised even in their tight closed bud, bear bitter fruit. The prisons are full of us.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.”

19. “They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Whole generations of students were blown off their life courses, rendered jobless, unmoored by direction or occupation. My father raged about the incessant closing of the university.”

20. “Whole generations of students were blown off their life courses, rendered jobless, unmoored by direction or occupation. My father raged about the incessant closing of the university.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “I lie there in the magic grove, being hummed at by trees with ancient memories, lulled by their stately breath, held in the embrace of their roots.”

21. “I lie there in the magic grove, being hummed at by trees with ancient memories, lulled by their stately breath, held in the embrace of their roots.”

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Nayomi Munaweera Quote: “Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.”

22. “Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.”

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