Shaikh Tawkir Hossain

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn't even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn't talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
― Yiwei Chai

“Sometimes neither a friend nor a psychologist can enter the depths of your soul, but only the flames of a candle or a fireplace.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“the centre of every poem is this:
The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.

— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Salma Deera, Letters From Medea

“What does it mean to be a candle? It means challenging the darkness even though you know you will die!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan