Galib

“তুমি আর আমি
ঠাণ্ডা ফেনা ঝিনুকের মতো চুপে থামি
সেইখানে রবো প’ড়ে-
যেখানে সমস্ত রাত্রি নক্ষত্রের আলো পড়ে ঝরে
সমুদ্রের হাওয়া ভেসে আসে,
গান গায় সিন্ধু তার জলের উল্লাসে।
~কয়েকটি লাইন”
― Jibanananda Das, ধূসর পাণ্ডুলিপি

“What do you do when you are falling? Do you reach out and try to grab for support? If you aren’t careful, you will pull others down with you. Unless you are very careful.”
― Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman

“Mama-when she was younger-said a woman on the run ought to keep a lookout over her shoulder. She also said a girl shouldn't get so big for her pants that she outgrew her history. But some ancestral memories deserved to be abandoned.”
― Ann Hite, Going To The Water

“Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye.” But the proverb goes on to say: “Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation