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Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle


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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.



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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.



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Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy



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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.



We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.



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

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



The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion



There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.



For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.



A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.





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This page presents the quote "Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle". Author of this quote is Michael Ondaatje. This quote is about tears, love is, eye,.