Sumaiya Tabassum

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“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

“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

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