Ruhin Joyee

“Atoms, in short, are very abundant. They are also fantastically durable. Because they are so long lived, atoms really get around. Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-- up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-- probably once belonged to Shakespeare.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“ঝাকানাকা দেয়ালের পাশে টবে পাতাবাহার গাছ দেখছিলেন মন দিয়ে, তিনি সোজা হয়ে দাঁড়িয়ে বললেন, "এই গাছগুলোর গোড়ায় সাদা রং কেন?"
জেনারেল কামানী বিস্মিত হয়ে বললেন, "কেন মিস্টার ঝাকানাকা? গোড়ায় সাদা রং ছাড়া গাছ হয় নাকি?”
― মাহবুব আজাদ, গোয়েন্দা ঝাকানাকা ও এক ডজন রহস্য

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“You're trying to swim upstream against the current. What is there about the natural flow of the river of life that has shocked you so strongly that you should want to swim against the current, even against time? You ought to know you're lost even before you begin. I don't understand you but I love you and I suppose you are obeying the law of your being.”
― Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso