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“kelinci yang terluka pun bisa berubah menjadi singa”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Bukan untuk siapa–siapa kupikir. Mungkin aku melakukannya untuk diriku sendiri pada akhirnya. Karena aku menikmatinya, menikmati melayani dan melihat senyum kebahagiaan orang – orang di sekitarku.”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Sehingga aku kadang melupakan kebahagiaanku sendiri. Sama seperti berbelas tahun lalu saat aku mengorbankan diriku sendiri demi membuat bapak ibu kandungku senang dan ridlo.”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Apakah cinta selalu menyediakan air mata?”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Tidak ada yang mencurigakan apapun darinya. Tidak tampak ada tanda – tanda bahwa dia punya perempuan lain. Tidak kelihatan sedang jatuh cinta. Tidak kelihatan sedang menyimpan dan menyembunyikan sesuatu. Jadi, aku bisa apa?”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Memang laki–laki yang tergoda perempuan hampir pasti sudah tidak punya otak lagi.”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Ibu pasti bisa menangkap getar sayang saat aku mengucapkan kata ‘ayah’ itu. Kuharap dia tidak terlalu cemburu karena kasihku terbagi juga untuknya.”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“Selama lebih tujuh tahun aku terpenjara tugas ini. Seperti bom yang hanya menunggu waktu”
― Dian Nafi, Ayah, Lelaki Itu Mengkhianatiku

“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.”
― Jessi Kirby, Moonglass

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Drowning Instinct

“The stars are brilliant at this time of night
and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break
for darling, the times are quite glorious.

I left him by the water’s edge,
still waving long after the ship was gone
and if someone would have screamed my name I wouldn’t have heard for I’ve said goodbye so many times in my short life that farewells are a muscular task and I’ve taught them well.
There’s a place by the side of the railway near the lake where I grew up and I used to go there to burry things and start anew.
I used to go there to say goodbye.
I was young and did not know many people but I had hidden things inside that I never dared to show and in silence I tried to kill them,
one way or the other,
leaving sin on my body
scrubbing tears off with salt
and I built my rituals in farewells.
Endings I still cling to.

So I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head
and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one
for I have used them myself and there is no coming back.
Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.

I turned away from the ocean
as not to fall for its plea
for it used to seduce and consume me
and there was this one night
a few years back and I was not yet accustomed to farewells
and just like now I stood waving long after the ship was gone.
But I was younger then and easily fooled
and the ocean was deep and dark and blue
and I took my shoes off to let the water freeze my bones.
I waded until I could no longer walk and it was too cold to swim but still I kept on walking at the bottom of the sea for I could not tell the difference between the ocean and the lack of someone I loved and I had not yet learned how the task of moving on is as necessary as survival.

Then days passed by and I spent them with my work
and now I’m writing letters I will never dare to send.
But there is this one day every year or so
when the burden gets too heavy
and I collect my belongings I no longer need
and make my way to the ocean to burn and drown and start anew
and it is quite wonderful, setting fire to my chains and flames on written words
and I stand there, starring deep into the heat until they’re all gone.
Nothing left to hold me back.

You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss
like chains wrapped around my veins,
and if you see a fire from the shore tonight
it’s my chains going up in flames.

The time of moon i quite glorious.
We could have been so glorious.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Drowning Instinct

“I can’t listen to you. I can’t listen to your voice. It’s as though I’d drunk a bottle of anise and fallen asleep wrapped in a quilt of roses. It pulls me along – and I know I’m drowning – but I go on down.”
― Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre

“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Believe that you are someone worth saving.”
― Slade Combs, The Choice: Death Is Just The Beginning

“I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.”
― Cher Lloyd

“If you feel like you're drowning, don't forget that it is just a feeling; it will pass with love and care. If you're actually drowning, then how are you reading this?”
― Dani N M.

“Cinta lebih mudah dirasakan daripada harus dimengerti, itulah mungkin mengapa lebih butuh balasan daripada alasan.”
― Pidi Baiq

“Mungkin emang sebaiknya kita bukan mencari orang yang tepat, tapi mencari orang yang menyenangkan. Karena orang yang menyenangkan bisa bikin kita ketawa.”
― Riri Sardjono, Marriagable: Gue Mau Nikah Asal...

“Agama itu gampang banget disisipi pesan-pesan politis dan budaya buat motong biaya propaganda.”
― Sammaria, Kartini Nggak Sampai Eropa

“Agama dijadikan media provokasi termurah dan terefektif sepanjang masa, apalagi buat orang kayak gue yang nggak ngerti-ngerti banget agama.”
― Sammaria, Kartini Nggak Sampai Eropa

“Maybe there’s a universe out there — happening now — where we end up together.
Maybe there’s a universe where I’m the right person for you. Where I adore every nice thing you did for me without starting to resent you. A universe where you actually end up with someone who appreciates you. Where no one becomes a doormat. Where both of us can shed our baggage and curiosity and issues.

If you think of it all this way, then it’s like neither of us did anything wrong.

You just found me in the wrong universe. That’s all.

Because you could have loved me forever. And maybe in another universe, I let you.”
― Gaby Dunn

“I'd like to find the guy who invented the proverb 'go with the flow' and lead him to an ocean full of hungry sharks. And see how he would flow. I'd really like to know.”
― Dee, Rectoverso

“buat apa dia kembali? buat apa muncul sejenak lalu menghilang lagi nanti?”
― Dee, Perahu Kertas

“Bagaimana hampa bisa menyakitkan? Hampa harusnya berarti tidak ada apa-apa. Tidak ada apa-apa berarti tidak ada masalah. Termasuk rasa sakit.”
― Dee

“Dan dengan langkah berat pergilah aku meninggalkan rumahsakit itu; rumah tempat orang yang tak bebas mempergunakan tubuh dan hidupnya sendiri.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bukan Pasar Malam

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Kelak, kalau kau jatuh cinta pada seorang laki-laki, kau harus mengumpulkan beratus-ratus pertanyaan yang harus kausimpan. Jangan pernah ada orang lain tahu bahwa kau sedang menguji dirimu apakah kau memilki cinta yang sesungguhnya atau sebaliknya. Bila kau bisa menjawab beratus-ratus pertanyaan itu, kau mulai memasuki tahap berikutnya. Apa untungnya laki-laki itu untukmu? Kau harus berani menjawabnya. Kau harus yakin dengan kesimpulan-kesimpulan yang kaumunculkan sendiri. Setelah itu, endapkan! Biarkan jawaban-jawaban dari ratusan pertanyaanmu itu menguasai otakmu. Jangan pernah menikah hanya karena kebutuhan atau dipaksa oleh sistem. Menikahlah kau dengan laki-laki yang mampu memberimu ketenangan, cinta, dan kasih. Yakinkan dirimu bahwa kau memang memerlukan laki-laki itu dalam hidupmu. Kalau kau tak yakin, jangan coba-coba mengambil risiko.”
― Oka Rusmini, Tarian Bumi