Dinur A. > Dinur A.'s Quotes

“Hey Clark', he said.'Tell me something good'. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it”
― Justin Bieber, First Step 2 Forever

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I turned in my seat. Will’s face was in shadow and I couldn’t quite make it out.
‘Just hold on. Just for a minute.’
‘Are you all right?’ I found my gaze dropping towards his chair, afraid some part of him was pinched, or trapped, that I had got something wrong.
‘I’m fine. I just . . . ’
I could see his pale collar, his dark suit jacket a contrast against it.
‘I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about . . . ’ He swallowed.
Even in the half-dark it seemed effortful.
‘I just . . . want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.’
I released the door handle.
‘Sure.’
I closed my eyes and lay my head against the headrest, and we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.”
― Mohammad Hatta

“I placed my face so close to his that his features became indistict, and I began to lose myself in them. I stroked his hair, his skin, his brow, with my fingertips, tears sliding unchecked down my cheeks, my nose against his, and all the time he watched me silently, studying me intently as if he were storing each molecule of me away. He was already retreating withdrawing to somewhere I couldn't reach him.
I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to life.
I held him, Will Traynor ex-City whiz kid, ex-stunt diver, sportsman, traveller, lover. I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Kereta seindah apa pun tidaklah berguna bila tidak mempunyai kuda yang menariknya.Lama-lama akan terbengkalai dan terpendam salju. Sama halnya dengan manusia, yang tidak akan bertahan lama bila tidak ada yang mendukung atau mendampinginya; betapapun hebatnya, mereka pasti akan terlupakan.”
― Prisca Primasari, Kastil Es dan Air Mancur yang Berdansa

“Kalau dipikir-pikir, selama ini aku selalu berlari.'
'Dari?'
'Segalanya.'
'Masa lalukah?'
'Begitulah. Masa lalu memang mengubah kita dengan cara yang aneh, bukan?'
'Benar. Bisa membuat orang melukai dirinya sendiri.”
― Prisca Primasari, Kastil Es dan Air Mancur yang Berdansa

“...Sedetik dapat terasa seperti selamanya, dan selamanya bisa menjadi sedetik atau bahkan tidak ada sama sekali.”
― Prisca Primasari, Kastil Es dan Air Mancur yang Berdansa

“Aku pernah mendengar kalau... dua orang bisa bersatu ketika semua partikel di jagad raya mendukung mereka. Ketika mereka berpisah, terasa ada yang mengganjal. Ganjil dan aneh. Yang satu tak bisa melupakan yang lainnya, sekalipun sangat menginginkannya. Keduanya melakukan apa pun agar bisa bertemu lagi, atau tanpa sadar melakukan sesuatu untuk mencegah satu sama lain hilang dari benak mereka.”
― Prisca Primasari, Kastil Es dan Air Mancur yang Berdansa

“Akhirnya, ada beberapa hal yang aku nggak ahli, kan, K? I can't tell you how I love you. That's just—way beyond my vocabulary.”
― Morra Quatro, Forgiven

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The saddest thing is there won’t be anyone to miss us when we’re gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home.”
“It’s better that way,” I said. “It’ll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn’t add to anyone’s pain.”
“If you can’t give anyone pain, then you can’t give them joy either.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“He'll put a real smile on your face, the one that lights up your eyes. He'll make you laugh everyday, tell you some stupid jokes, so then you will have no time to nurture the sad feeling hidden inside you. He will always be there for you until someday, you wake up, feel the sun upon your face, and realize; that the sadness is not there anymore.' - Sinar to Nina”
― Nilam Suri, Camar Biru: Cinta Tak Selalu Tepat Waktu

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke up our blood flow and mess up our breathing and tangle themselves through our bodies like wire. Like razors, like fire.
We remember them even when we don't remember them.
We try and forget, but it's pointless.
Even amnesia. Even comas and brain damage and traumatic shock.
Whatever makes us not remember, we still remember.
Our minds flounder like fish but our bodies...
Our bodies remember.”
― Katrina Leno, The Half Life of Molly Pierce

“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive."

I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know."

A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.”
― Marie Lu, Legend