{"quotes":[{"text":"Malin had been born and bred in an upper-class family. Was that the cause of his dissillusionment and bitterness with that way of life? The way he could have peace of mind therefore, was by detaching himself from that way of life and battling against it. Would Prince Siddharta have renounced the world if he had been born into poverty?","author":"මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ","tags":["buddha","buddhism","prince-siddharta","sinhalese","srilanka","uprooted","village"],"id":9073,"author_id":"%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%A7%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A+%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%82%E0%B7%84"},{"text":"Maggie was ten years younger than him. Being cross-cousins, they lived in the same compound, in the same two houses that still existed. When their parents told him to take her for his wife, there was nothing for him to think deep into the matter. They simply obeyed their parents. Accordingly, she came over to sleep in his house. In this, manner they remained as man and wife for a period of over thirty years.","author":"Swarnakanthi Rajapakse","tags":["caste","cinnamon-gardens","cousin-marriage","cross-cousins","culture","drummers","sinhalese","srilanka","village"],"id":21686,"author_id":"Swarnakanthi+Rajapakse"},{"text":"Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.","author":"Swarnakanthi Rajapakse","tags":["caste","cinnamon-gardens","culture","drummers","karma","sinhalese","srilanka","village"],"id":26014,"author_id":"Swarnakanthi+Rajapakse"},{"text":"Her heart filled with boundless love that surged anew for her father. She felt like rushing to him and planting a quick kiss on his cheek the way she used to when she was a small girl. However, these villagers are not in the habit of kissing their offspring after they grow up. They show their love and affection by stroking their heads, addressing them in endearing words and blessing them.","author":"Swarnakanthi Rajapakse","tags":["caste","cinnamon-gardens","culture","drummers","parents-and-children","sinhalese","srilanka","village"],"id":28893,"author_id":"Swarnakanthi+Rajapakse"},{"text":"Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["assists","big-dreams","comfort","community","dream","dream-big","emmanuel","family","food-for-thought","god","god-with-us","help","household","i-have-a-dream","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","love-your-neighbour","neighbours","people","residence","village","you"],"id":30471,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The two qualities essential to a good man were honesty and compassion, Malin felt. His father lived his life as if he had rejected these qualities. Saviman Kabalana reasoned that loving kindness and compassion were weaknesses. Therefore he hid behind a mask that concealed his innate human qualities of love and kindness, both in his office and at home.","author":"මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ","tags":["family","parents-and-children","sinhalese","srilanka","uprooted","village"],"id":50499,"author_id":"%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%A7%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A+%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%82%E0%B7%84"},{"text":"The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft feet over a first thin fall of powdery snow. Little was visible but squares of a dusky orange-red on either side of the street, where the firelight or lamplight of each cottage overflowed through the casements into the dark world without. Most of the low latticed windows were innocent of blinds, and to the lookers-in from outside, the inmates, gathered round the tea-table, absorbed in handiwork, or talking with laughter and gesture, had each that happy grace which is the last thing the skilled actor shall capture--the natural grace which goes with perfect unconsciousness of observation. Moving at will from one theatre to another, the two spectators, so far from home themselves, had something of wistfulnessin their eyes as they watched a cat being stroked, a sleepy child picked up and huddled off to bed, or a tired man stretch and knock out his pipe on the end of a smouldering log.","author":"Kenneth Grahame","tags":["december","nightfall","village","walk","winter"],"id":68708,"author_id":"Kenneth+Grahame"},{"text":"A village woman from a poor family may violate the code of propriety, not because of poverty, but because she has been the victim of the menace of male predators. A woman from a family of the gentry, would never be the victim of such intimidation. Moreover the women of the gentry were bonded to follow their code of conduct and not to transgress, by generations of breeding.","author":"මාර්ටින් වික්‍රමසිංහ","tags":["culture","sinhalese","srilanka","uprooted","village","women"],"id":69677,"author_id":"%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%A7%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A+%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%82%E0%B7%84"},{"text":"Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.","author":"Swarnakanthi Rajapakse","tags":["caste","cinnamon-gardens","culture","drummers","sinhalese","srilanka","village"],"id":80711,"author_id":"Swarnakanthi+Rajapakse"},{"text":"Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["culture","italian","life","personification","village","village-life"],"id":85958,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}