Sumaiya Tabassum

“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

“They offered me freedom as a gift. She did. Who told her she had it to offer? I know the freedom you are talking about. I had that freedom the moment I was born. When these people say you belong to me, I own you, it is like the passing of the rain, or the setting of the sun at the end of the day.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise

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

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey