Quotes by Thisuri Wanniarachchi

About Thisuri Wanniarachchi:

Thisuri Wanniarachchi is a Sri Lankan author. She is known for her book Colombo Streets, which she began writing when she was fourteen years old and which won a 2009 State Literary Award. Wanniarachchi received her primary and secondary education at St Bridget's Convent in Colombo, Sri Lanka and she went on to study at the The British School in Colombo She is currently attending Bennington College pursuing an undergraduate degree in Political Economy and Education Reform
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Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be expos...

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Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

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I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

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Who are you if nobody knows your story?

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If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.

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As the doctors told him, he wanted to scream out loud and cry. He held his heavy head up and clenched his teeth and fists. “Men don’t cry,” his grandpa used to say. “Men don’t cry.” �8 But he cried. Like a baby. He cried till he could f...

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People keep saying someone should fix the system, the system is corrupt. What they don’t get is; they are the system. It’s just like how people hate McDonald’s and Coca Cola. People say they are evil corporations, terrorists and ruining the hea...

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She smiled. She was happy, yet sad. Life had never been more bittersweet. She looked at the sunset. The pink sky was sinking into the deep blue ocean. It was almost as if the sky knew it was making a mistake, digging its own grave. But for a moment t...

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He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep sound at night? Did it make them happy? Or are they just in for the attention?...

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Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

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Today I prayed for Boston, for America, my home away from home. Today, I realized how lucky we Sri Lankans are to have peace in our country. How I feel today, hearing of the bombs going off in the city brings back memories of how I used to feel four ...

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All is fair in fashion and war.

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The thing about life is, you’ve got to somehow make it through the day. Don’t wait for the beautiful evening. Go on with your life. Of course, the beautiful evening will come. In fact, she’s on her way. And she’s coming to you as fast as she ...

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You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at th...

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Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.

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I believe in god. I also believe that you should never ask god to make your dreams come true. You have to work for your dreams. And dream actually, with all your mind body and soul. I don’t believe luck is when a super power grants us what we wishe...

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Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.

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I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

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Author Bio

  • NameThisuri Wanniarachchi
  • DescriptionSr Lankan writer