Zarin Chowdhury

“See, the thing about guys is that I didn’t really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don’t know why, not exactly. I just, I don’t know, I just didn’t belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“আমি যাকে পায়ের তলায় রাখতে চাই এবং রাখতে পারি,সে কাতর ভাবে আমার কাছে দয়া ভিক্ষা করবে,এটাই স্বাভাবিক।কিন্তু সে যদি বিনা প্রতিবাদে পায়ের তলায় শুয়ে থাকে রবং মনে মনে আমাকেও তার পায়ের তলায় রাখে,তাহলে সুখটা ঠিক সম্পূর্ন হয় না”
― সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যয়

“I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it’s shameful or immodest but because I don’t want to see it. I don’t want to look at something that determines me so completely.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Maybe life was just a series of phases—one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I’d be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. Not that I really believed in my mom’s phase theory. It didn’t sound like an explanation—it sounded like an excuse. I don’t think my mom got the whole guy thing. I didn’t get the guy thing either. And I was a guy.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe