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“Pylades: I’ll take care of you.
Orestes: It’s rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.”
― Anne Carson, Euripides

“Godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed”
― Kristin Chang

“It's only you," whispered Orphan Girl. She was holding his hand crouched down next to him. "Why do you hate you?"
Ronan thought about it.
The albino night horror swept in, talons opening.
Ronan stood up, stretching out his arm like he would to Chainsaw.
"I don't," he said.
And he woke up.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“He was charming, and for that reason people forgave him.”
― Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“I think I've come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am.”
― Jenny Slate

“I have belonged to you in a way you haven’t to me.”
― Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

“Dengan kejadian kayak gitu, kok, bisa ngerasa baik, sih, Kang?"
"Wa, menurut gue, hidup yang berhasil itu jika kamu bisa bangun di pagi hari, lalu tidur di malam hari, dan di antara kedua hal itu, kamu bisa melakukan apa saja yang kamu mau. Gak peduli apa jabatan kamu, berapa uangmu, selama di antara dua tidur tadi kamu masih bisa bebas melakukan apa saja, itu berarti hidupmu sudah berhasil. Gitu." ucap Dimas menirukan suara Mario Teguh.”
― Brian Khrisna, Parable

“Jatuh cinta itu mudah, yang sulit adalah menerimanya.”
― Brian Khrisna, Parable

“Nanti kamu bakal ngerti sendiri. Tapi intinya, jangan pernah menggantungkan kebahagiaan hidupmu dalam bentuk kehadiran orang lain. Cobalah untuk bisa bahagia ketika hidup sendiri. Jika kamu sudah bisa melakukan hal itu, maka gue jamin, kamu akan selalu bisa merasa cukup untuk bersama siapapun di hidupmu nanti.”
― Brian Khrisna, Parable

“Beberapa dari kita terkadang sulit menerima diri sendiri. Sulit untuk merasa bahagia dengan apa-apa yang sudah kita punya. Seakan hidup di kulit sendiri menjadi terasa begitu melelahkan. Lalu, kita menemukan seseorang yang ketika kita bersamanya, entah kenapa kita bisa menjadi orang yang begitu bahagia dengan diri sendiri. Seakan apa yang kita lakukan, apa yang kita ucapkan, apa yang kita lalui ketika bersama mereka, sama sekali tidak menimbulkan rasa benci kepada diri sendiri. Kita rasanya menjadi orang yang berbeda ketika mereka ada. Seseorang yang selama ini kita cari. Seseorang yang bahkan tanpa sadar membantumu sampai mengumpat, 'Nah! Ini, nih, kehidupan yang aku cari dari dulu!'; yang ketika kita bersamanya, segala kekurangan kita gak lagi jadi momok yang menakutkan. Chia, buat gue, ketika bersamanya, gue sama sekali tidak merasa takut untuk tidak diterima karena bentukan gue. Tidak juga merasa takut ditinggal pergi, meski nyatanya gue ditinggal pergi juga,”
― Brian Khrisna, Parable

“Tidak ada yang lebih kubenci daripada sekumpulan gadis yang berhenti berbisik saat aku lewat. Aku mulai mengelupasi koreng di tubuhku, dan saat tidak ada lagi koreng yang tersisa, aku mengelupasi kulit yang menonjol di kuku jariku sampai berdarah. Aku sangat mengkhawatirkan penampilanku dan apakah aku melakukan segala sesuatunya dengan benar, aku sering merasa seperti sedang meniru sosok gadis, dan bukannya menjadi seorang gadis.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“I am a restrained person.
Otherwise my heart would race past my
tongue to pour out everything.
Instead I mumble,
I gnaw myself.
I lose hope.
And my mind is burning.”
― Anne Carson, An Oresteia

“Yet again, isn’t there something terrible in randomness—the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it’s just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.”
― Aeschylus, An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides

“I'm not talking about killing Cobblepot and Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent... I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.”
― Judd Winick, Batman: Under the Red Hood

“You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you

when I was a young man
I felt these things were
dumb, unsophisticated.
I had bad blood, a twisted
mind, a precarious
upbringing.

I was hard as granite, I
leered at the
sun.
I trusted no man and
especially no
woman.
I changed jobs and
cities, I hated holidays,
babies, history,
newspapers, museums,
grandmothers,
marriage, movies,
spiders, garbagemen,
english accents,spain,
france,italy,walnuts and
the color
orange.
algebra angred me,
opera sickened me,
charlie chaplin was a
fake
and flowers were for
pansies.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“Dosa terbesar orangtua kepada anaknya adalah melahirkan anak ke dunia ketika diri sendiri belum layak menjadi orangtua”
― Naomi Midori, Pasien

“There’s no material safety data sheet for astatine. If there were, it would just be the word “NO” scrawled over and over in charred blood.”
― Randall Munroe, What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“I don’t know what to tell you other than the fact that a giraffe’s heart weighs 22 pounds and that somebody once told me when flies fall in love, their entire brain is rewired to only know loving each other. When one of them dies, their memory becomes blank. I hope you never think about anything as much as I think about waking up next to you during a windstorm at 5 am.”
― Anymonous

“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.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I’m the Saint praying on a balcony - like peaceful beasts grazing along the Sea of Palestine.
I’m the scholar in a plain reading chair. Branches and rain beat the library windows.
I’m the pedestrian on the high road through the stunted woods; the sound of floodgates drowns out my footsteps. I stare at the melancholy wash of another golden sunset...
The path is harsh. The hillocks are weed. The air is still. How far we are from birds and streams. The end of the world must be just ahead.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations

“If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
― Tim Kreider

“But you are my nomad and I love you sideways daily. Sideways because I have to beam my love in all directions, hoping it bounces off something and eventually finds you.”
― Richard Siken, Editors Pages: The Long and Short of It

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
― Richard Siken