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"We are full of Anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off"
p.g 134

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"A few years before, the girl Lakma had seen her parents killed. A week after their murder, the twelve-year-old was taken to a government ward run by nuns, north of Colombo, that looked after children whose parents had been killed in the civil war." p. 99

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“The
train was sucked into the tunnel and they moved within it, shuddering in the
darkness.”            p. 248 (Ravina's Death)  

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“The
train was sucked into the tunnel and they moved within it, shuddering in the
darkness.”            p. 248 (Ravina's Death)  

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"They begun covering the faces of the photographs. He worked better this way, and there was no danger of his recognising the dead" pg. 209

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"They had brought him nine-month- old twins, each shot in the palms and one bullet each in their right legs- so it was no accident, a close- range job and intentional, left to die; the mother had been killed. In a couple of weeks those children were peaceful things, full of light. You thought, What did they do to deserve this, and then, What did they do to survive this?" p.238.

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“Everyone was emotionally shattered by a public bomb. Months later survivors would come into the ward fearing they might still die.” p.122.

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"Half-dead soldiers who wished for sun and fresh air rested there and ate morphine tablets beside a BETEL CHEWING IS PROHIBITED sign." p.114

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"The only reasonable constant was that there would be more bodies tomorrow - post-stabbings, post-land mines. Orthopaedic trauma, punctured lungs, spinal cord injuries..." p.1

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"This isn't Brussels or America. Only the weapons in this country are state-of-the-art." Sarath p.157

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"Why transport a blindfolded victim on a bicycle? It made all life seem precarious. It made all of them more equal...The blindfolded man had to balance his body in tune with his possible killer." p.151

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"After she escaped him she would never say his name out loud" p.g. 140

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"The problem up here is not the Tamil problem, its the human problem."- Lakdasa, p. 241

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"Who sent a thirteen-year-old to fight, and for what furious cause? For an old leader? For some pale flag?"
[p.216]

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"She had interrupted his death. She was the obstacle to what he wanted." p.193.

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"Palipana could move within archaeological sites as if they were his own historical homes from past lives- he was able to guess the existence of a water garden's location, underneath it, reconstruct its banks , fill it with white lotus."- Sarath, p.187.

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"He approached runes not with a historical text but with the pragmatic awareness of locally inherited skills." pg. 78

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We use the bone to search for it. “The truth shall set you free”. I believe that.’

‘Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.’ (98)

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‘Well, kings also caused trouble in those days,’ he said. ‘Even then there was nothing to believe in with certainty. They still didn’t know what truth was. We have never had the truth. Not even with your work on bones.’ (p. 98)

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"i can't imagine your childhood, you are a complete stranger to me, Colombo. Is the place languid?"

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"Archaeology lives under the same rules a the Napoleonic Code. The  point was not that he would ever be proved wrong in his theories, but that he could not prove that he was right" - p. 79

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"Her arms unfolded as she indressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her." - p. 63

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'Dragged chisel slabs from brush into sunlight.'  - Taking About Palipana, p. 91

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"Without eyes there is not just blindness, there is nothing. There is no existence. "- Palipana, p.95

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"God she loved a Lab" p. 62

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"International investigations don't mean a lot" Sarath, p.41

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"Be careful what you reveal" Sarath, p.41

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"It's different here, dangerous. Sometimes law is on the side of power not truth" Sarath, p.40

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You can't just slip in, make a discovery and leave. P.g 40

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"let conversations cease, let laughter flee, this is the place where death, delights to help the living."

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"She gave her brother one hundred saved rupees, a pen set he had been eying for some time, a tin of 50 gold leaf cigarettes she had found, and a sexual favour he had demanded in the last hour of impasse" p.

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"This representative of all lost voices. To give him a name would name the rest." p.52

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"they were not surrounded by verdant landscape. Ascetics always chose

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"She would stand there for a while, then walk wet-footed to bed" pg. 63

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'Someone at Seraths level for example. No one else has access to such placed. So this doesnt seem a crome by an average citizen' - pg 85

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'Sarath reached his hand across the breakfast plates and held Anil’s wrist. His thumb on her pulse' p 62

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"So–you are the swimmer!‘ A broad-chested man in his late forties was approaching her casually, with his hand out. She hoped this wasn’t Mr. Sarath Diyasena, but it was." - pg. 12

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"After that she allowed no other first names on her passports or school reports or application forms" page 64

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“One postcard from Leaf. One American bird. She pulled some cutlets and a beer out of the fridge. There would be a book to read, a shower to take. Later she might go to Galle Face Green and have a drink at one of the newer hotels, watch the drunk members of a touring English cricket team sing karaoke.”

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In the West she'd read, 'the dawn comes up like thunder' and she knew she was the only one in the classroom to recognise the phrase physically.  Page 5

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“One postcard from Leaf. One American bird. She pulled some cutlets and a beer out of the fridge. There would be a book to read, a shower to take. Later she might go to Galle Face Green and have a drink at one of the newer hotels, watch the drunk members of a touring English cricket team sing karaoke.”
p. 29

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"It's different here, dangerous. Sometimes law is on the side of power not truth." [p.40]

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" She used to believe that meaning allowed a person a door to escape grief and fear. But she saw that those who were slammed and stained by violence lost the power of language and logic" p 51

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“can I trust you” anil

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'Bodhisattvas quickly bought up.'
Pg. 8

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"She had been born on the island, even though she now travelled with a British passport." p. 12

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“you have to trust me” - Sarath

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"To cut down the corpse of an unknown hanged man and then bear the body of the animal on one's back...something dead, something buried, something already rotting away?" p.52

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“a forensic scientist and an archaeologist, odd pairing, if you want my opinion” p. 13

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'So–you are the swimmer!‘ A broad-chested man in his late forties was approaching her casually, with his hand out. She hoped this wasn’t Mr. Sarath Diyasena, but it was.' P 16

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“Was the partner assigned to her neutral in this war? Was he just an archaeologist who loved his work?“ pg 29

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“I don’t really know, you see, which side you are on - if I can trust you.” p.49

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“… Her mind still circling around Sarath once more. She had been working with him for several days and she still had no handle on him”  p.24

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“I said to my girlfriend Leaf before I came here, Perhaps I’ll meet the man who is going to ruin me. Can I trust you?”- Anil
“You have to trust me.”- Sarath
p.60

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"Everyone's scared Anil, it's a national disease" p. 49