Badz

“When I was young, all that fathers ever had to do was sit in offices, eat at restaurants for lunch, do whatever they wanted wherever they went, and then come home and appear hardworking and loyal. Loyal, just for com-ing home to eat food and enjoy a clean and well-run house that a woman maintained just so a father could do whatever he wanted inside and outside of it.”
― Sarah Manguso, Liars

“So what if he's gay. That is not the end of the world. Nowadays even in Bangladesh there are activists fighting for the rights of gay people. Times are changing and we have to change with them.

Meena, we cannot only think about what people will say all the time.”
― Sabina Khan, The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali

“Apparently, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Bengali girl of marrying age must be in want of a husband.”
― Sabina Khan, The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali

“She hums. It must be unconscious. She never hums a full song, only a few notes. Sometimes the same three notes over and over. Sometimes just one note in different lengths, creating more of a beat than a tune, like she is scared of silence.”
― Jenny Mustard, Okay Days