Sayantan

“বছরে বছরে গাছের পাতা ঝরে আবার নবীন পাতার দল হেসে ওঠে; কিন্তু জীবন থেকে সময়ের পাতা শুধু ঝরতেই থাকে, পায়ের তলায় জমে ওঠে অভিজ্ঞতার স্তূপ।”
― Sanjib Chattopadhyay, কলিকাতা আছে কলিতাতাতেই

“Doctor Simons? This is Thomson... No, without a ‘P’, as in Venezuela...”
― Hergé, The Seven Crystal Balls

“এঁরা প্যারাডাইসের নতুন পাখি। কলকাতার প্রেমিক যুবক সম্প্রদায়ের দুটি স্পেসিমেন। ভাস্কোডাগামার মতো চুল, ইউক্যালিপটাসের মতো শীর্ণ সবল। আমাদের ভবিষ্যতের ঝুলঝাড়ু।”
― Sanjib Chattopadhyay, কলিকাতা আছে কলিতাতাতেই

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien