Rida Akhtar Ghumman

“I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“The homeland does not leave the body until the last moment, the moment of death.

The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries
The smell of the sea.”
― Mourid Barghouti, رأيت رام الله

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou