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“Kita harus belajar kecewa bahwa orang yang kita percaya ternyata memegang pisau dan menusuk punggung kita. Kita tidak bisa berharap semua orang akan selalu loyal pada perjuangan dan persahabatan.”
― Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

“Laut itu, Asmara, tak hanya terdiri dari ikan cantik dan kuda laut, tetapi juga pada masanya ada badai dan ombak besar yang hanya bisa dijinakkan oleh tembang merdu para nelayan.

Alex”
― Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“You asked me if you could see colours again, Salama. If we deserve to see them. I think we do. I think you can. There's too little of it in death. In pain. But that's not the only thing in the world. That's not all that Syria has. Syria was once the center of the world. Inventions and discoveries were made here; they built the world. Our history is in the Al-Zahrawi Palace, in our mosques, in our earth”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow