Mursalin Mosaddeque

“Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.”
― Joy Williams

“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

“The hungry have a grievance against those who have enough, and those who have enough have a grievance against the hungry. Yes... hunger stupefies and maddens a man and makes him savage; hunger is not a potato. When a man is starving he uses bad language, and steals, and may do worse.... One must realize that.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Wife, and Other Stories

“Don't forget that dragons are only guardians of treasures and one fights them for what they keep - not for themselves...”
― Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals