Mursalin Mosaddeque

“Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and my mother, in an oversweet voice, had said: 'But if my darling reads books like that at his age, what will he do when he grows up?' 'I shall live them!' This reply had met with the most complete and lasting success.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre

“His secretive nature detested the purpose of all interviews, their oppressive intimacy, their inescapable reality.”
― John le Carré, Call for the Dead

“Every wedding anniversary, we behave like mountaineers,/and pretend to have conquered distance.”
― Sumana Roy

“It was impossible to rush plants, to tell a tree to ‘hurry up’. In envy, in admiration and with ambition, I began to call that pace ‘Tree time’.”
― Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree