Sumaiya Tabassum

“Another time, I happened to find a pressed flower someone had left as a bookmark. As I inhaled the scent of the long-ago faded flower, I wondered about the person who had put it there. Who in the world was she? When did she live? What was she feeling? It’s only in secondhand books that you can savor encounters like this, connections that transcend time. And that’s how I learned to love the secondhand bookstore that handled these books, our Morisaki Bookshop. I realized how precious a chance I’d been given, to be a part of that little place, where you can feel the quiet flow of time.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“যে যোদ্ধা নিজেকে মৃত জেনেই যুদ্ধ করে, কার সাধ্য আছে তাকে হত্যা করার।”
― Latiful Islam Shibli

“I'm afraid, you're right...though not only of them. We'll lose everything, including the way we live,' Hussein said. 'And these young people will lose even more. One day they'll make them spit on all that we know, and will make them recite their laws and their story of the world as if it were the holy word. When they come to write about us, what will they say? That we made slaves.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise