Mojaffor Hossain

“I know love is not a requirement for marriage or for childbearing. Rape can produce children too. My siblings and I were walking proofs. The ten of us were nothing but products of rapes and assaults. Maybe that’s why none of us were “normal” in the normal sense. Not even our father. If our mother failed to pay him the attention he wanted, our father would go to the next room and sleep with our second sister.”
― Mojaffor Hossain, Meet Human Meat : And Other Stories

“It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale