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Top 30 Sonali Deraniyagala Quotes (2025 Update)

Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.”

1. “There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I will kill myself soon. But until then how do l tame my pain?”

2. “I will kill myself soon. But until then how do l tame my pain?”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind. So I stopped talking about them, I wouldn’t mouth my boys’ names, I shoved away stories of them. Let them, let our life, become as unreal as that wave.”

3. “I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts stuttered in my mind. So I stopped talking about them, I wouldn’t mouth my boys’ names, I shoved away stories of them. Let them, let our life, become as unreal as that wave.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Thank you most of all to Mark Epstein, my extraordinary therapist. This book would not exist without his guidance and persuasion. With him I was safe, to try to grasp the unfathomable, and to dare to remember.”

4. “Thank you most of all to Mark Epstein, my extraordinary therapist. This book would not exist without his guidance and persuasion. With him I was safe, to try to grasp the unfathomable, and to dare to remember.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “But here in my home, I will be destroyed by getting too close to the life I lost.”

5. “But here in my home, I will be destroyed by getting too close to the life I lost.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “On days like this, birthdays, the anniversary of the wave, I want to be alone. Alone, I am close to them, I slip back into our life, or they slip into mine, undisturbed.”

6. “On days like this, birthdays, the anniversary of the wave, I want to be alone. Alone, I am close to them, I slip back into our life, or they slip into mine, undisturbed.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “And I cringe to be bereft in a way that cannot be imagined, even though I do wonder how impossible this really is.”

7. “And I cringe to be bereft in a way that cannot be imagined, even though I do wonder how impossible this really is.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “And everywhere, on bare ground and between cracks in the floors, tiny pink and white flowers that flourish along the seashore forced their way up. Mini mal, or graveyard flowers, they are called. I resented this renewal. How dare you heal.”

9. “And everywhere, on bare ground and between cracks in the floors, tiny pink and white flowers that flourish along the seashore forced their way up. Mini mal, or graveyard flowers, they are called. I resented this renewal. How dare you heal.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Maybe it is not so overwhelming after all, to dissolve the divide between now and then.”

10. “Maybe it is not so overwhelming after all, to dissolve the divide between now and then.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Occasionally an insensitive relative might walk away if I mention my anguish, and I reel from the humiliation of my pain being outlandish, not palatable to others.”

11. “Occasionally an insensitive relative might walk away if I mention my anguish, and I reel from the humiliation of my pain being outlandish, not palatable to others.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I trip up constantly, between this life and that.”

12. “I trip up constantly, between this life and that.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Somehow on this boat I can rest with disbelief about what happened, and with the impossible truth of my loss, which I have to compress often and misshape, just so I can bear it -so I can cook or teach our floss my teeth.”

13. “Somehow on this boat I can rest with disbelief about what happened, and with the impossible truth of my loss, which I have to compress often and misshape, just so I can bear it -so I can cook or teach our floss my teeth.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Seven years on, and their absence has expanded. Just as our life would have in this time, it has swelled.”

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

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I think I also don’t confess because I am still so unbelieving of what happened. I am still aghast. I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself... I can see though that my secrecy does me no favors. It probably makes worse my sense of being outlandish. It confirms to me that it might be abhorrent, my story, or that few can relate to it.”

15. “I think I also don’t confess because I am still so unbelieving of what happened. I am still aghast. I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself... I can see though that my secrecy does me no favors. It probably makes worse my sense of being outlandish. It confirms to me that it might be abhorrent, my story, or that few can relate to it.”

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$Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “By knowing them again, by gathering threads of our life, I am much less fractured. I am also less confused. I don’t constantly ask, Was I their mother? How can so much of my life not even seem like mine? I can recover myself better when I dare let in their light.”$

16. “By knowing them again, by gathering threads of our life, I am much less fractured. I am also less confused. I don’t constantly ask, Was I their mother? How can so much of my life not even seem like mine? I can recover myself better when I dare let in their light.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “These blue whales are unreal and baffling, yet surrounded by them I settle awhile. Somehow on this boat I can rest with my disbelief about what happened, and with the impossible truth of my loss, which I have to compress often and misshape, just so I can bear it – so I can cook or teach or floss my teeth. Maybe the majesty of these creatures loosens my heart so I can hold it whole. Or have I been put in a trance by these otherworldly blue whales?”

17. “These blue whales are unreal and baffling, yet surrounded by them I settle awhile. Somehow on this boat I can rest with my disbelief about what happened, and with the impossible truth of my loss, which I have to compress often and misshape, just so I can bear it – so I can cook or teach or floss my teeth. Maybe the majesty of these creatures loosens my heart so I can hold it whole. Or have I been put in a trance by these otherworldly blue whales?”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start.”

18. “I was terrified that tomorrow the truth would start.”

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$Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “But I have learned that I can only recover myself when I keep them near. If I distance myself from them, and their absence, I am fractured. I am left feeling I’ve blundered into a stranger’s life.”$

19. “But I have learned that I can only recover myself when I keep them near. If I distance myself from them, and their absence, I am fractured. I am left feeling I’ve blundered into a stranger’s life.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.”

20. “How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater the agony.”

21. “I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater the agony.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Broken and bewildered, my brother had the house cleared and packed away, painted and polished, all in the first month or two after the wave. For him, that was the practical thing to do, to impose order on the unfathomable, perhaps.”

22. “Broken and bewildered, my brother had the house cleared and packed away, painted and polished, all in the first month or two after the wave. For him, that was the practical thing to do, to impose order on the unfathomable, perhaps.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “Is this truth too potent for me to hold? If I keep it close, will I tumble? At times, I don’t know.”

23. “Is this truth too potent for me to hold? If I keep it close, will I tumble? At times, I don’t know.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “The more I remember, the greater my agony.”

24. “The more I remember, the greater my agony.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “My boys. I don’t have them to hold. What do I do with my arms?”

25. “My boys. I don’t have them to hold. What do I do with my arms?”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself.”

26. “I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “In a few hours it will be light. It will be tomorrow. I don’t want it to be tomorrow. I was terrified that tomorrow, the truth would start.”

27. “In a few hours it will be light. It will be tomorrow. I don’t want it to be tomorrow. I was terrified that tomorrow, the truth would start.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I was dizzy in that room. I felt faint with disbelief. I held on to the seat of my chair to stay upright. I knew what was going on, but I couldn’t absorb any of it.”

28. “I was dizzy in that room. I felt faint with disbelief. I held on to the seat of my chair to stay upright. I knew what was going on, but I couldn’t absorb any of it.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I’d never heard shrieking like this before. So wild, wretched, it frightened me, rattled the wall I was holding on to. This noise was crackling into the numbness in my head. It was blasting the smallest stir of hope in my heart. It was telling me that what had happened was unthinkable, but I didn’t want this confirmed. Not by wailing strangers, I did not.”

29. “I’d never heard shrieking like this before. So wild, wretched, it frightened me, rattled the wall I was holding on to. This noise was crackling into the numbness in my head. It was blasting the smallest stir of hope in my heart. It was telling me that what had happened was unthinkable, but I didn’t want this confirmed. Not by wailing strangers, I did not.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back.”

30. “I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “He’d say, “Don’t be scared, Vik. It’s good when it’s all really black. You can see your dreams better.”

31. “He’d say, “Don’t be scared, Vik. It’s good when it’s all really black. You can see your dreams better.”

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Sonali Deraniyagala Quote: “I hadn’t shed a tear all day, and I wasn’t going to. Not with all these people here, not now.”

32. “I hadn’t shed a tear all day, and I wasn’t going to. Not with all these people here, not now.”

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