William Malabanan > William's Quotes

“Minsan, hindi tayo makakagawa ng magandang alaala kung walang lungkot, takot, sakit. Kahit nga sa pagsulat ng mga masasayang bagay, nangangailangan din ng karanasan ng lungkot. Pa'no ka magsusulat tungkol sa kaligayahan kung hindi mo alam at naranasan ang lungkot? Pa'no ka makukuwento ng kamatayan kung hindi mo alam ang kahulugan ng buhay? (p. 178)”
― RM Topacio-Aplaon, Lila ang Kulay ng Pamamaalam

“Ang kamatayan ay hindi isang ritwal kundi isang tulay papunta sa pinili mong buhay (p. 341).”
― RM Topacio-Aplaon, Lila ang Kulay ng Pamamaalam

“Pero parang hanggang doon na lang, parang isang madamdaming nobela na nawawala ang esensiya isa o dalawang taon matapos mo itong mabasa. (p. 299)”
― RM Topacio-Aplaon, Lila ang Kulay ng Pamamaalam

“Kumpleto nga kayo, saksakan naman ng duwag!
May lakas nga kayo, di niyo naman ginagamit!”
― Russell Molina, Sixty Six: Chapter 3

“Arthur settled himself into the footwell by my legs as if he’d been going on long car journeys all his life.”
― Mikael Lindnord, Arthur: The Dog who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home (

“And then I thought about the dog that I had started to think of as a friend. I thought about the way he’d first looked at me. The way he’d sought me out. But I also thought of the way he carried himself, his pondus, that Swedish word that conveys so much and which defined his stillness and elegance. He was, he is, like a king. A golden king. Like the film. Like King Arthur. That dog was no ordinary dog. He was regal. He was Arthur.”
― Mikael Lindnord, Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home

“I found myself talking to myself, in the way that I usually only do if I’m in real danger. This is it, I told myself, this is it. If you do this, it’s for good. No matter how damaged he is, how sick, he will be yours and your responsibility. You can’t ever push him away from you. You must love him. You and he will be together for ever if you do this. It’s for good.”
― Mikael Lindnord, Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home

“Maraming mundo ang bawat tao. Gagawin mo iyon kung wala kang makapa. Dadagdagan mo kung kulang, hahanapin kapag nawawala. Kung matagpuan na, pilit iyong tatakasan ng mga duwag at wawaratin naman ng mga matatapang para makagawa ng iba.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Isang beses lang tayo makapipili ng daan at pagkatapos noon, paulit-ulit na tayo sa daan na iyon- paikot-ikot, habang kinukumbinsi natin ang sarili na umuusad naman talaga tayo, na nagpapatuloy tayo, na mayroon tayong pinatutunguhan- kahit wala nga, wala naman talaga, paikot-ikot lang tayo sa iisang daan na noon, noong hindi natin alam, noong wala tayong kamalay-malay, ay nagpasya na pala tayo’t pinili nga ito.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Lahat, may hinahanap. Pero iba ang natatagpuan nila sa huli. Pero masaya pa rin sila. Lagi pa rin silang masaya.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Seems like "all systems go" na 'di ba? Super compatible. Gusto n'yo ang isa't-isa. Pero 'yan ang mga nakakatakot. 'Yung akala mo okay lahat, sabay 'pag sinabi mong mahal mo s'ya. *blam!* Guguho lahat.”
― Manix Abrera, Sorrowful, Sorrowful Mysteries!

“Pakiramdam ko e andami kong naiisip na dehins magawa dahil alang deadline. Nasanay ata ko sa school tsaka sa trabaho na lahat may deadline. E yung nga naiisip ko tuloy na sariling projects di ko matapos kasi walang deadline.”
― Manix Abrera, O Kaligayahang Walang Hanggan Yeh!

“A: Oy! Oy! Oy ba't sumisingit 'yan ha?! Hoy! Mahilig ka ba sa singit? Hoy!
B: Hwsht! Pabayaan mo na, tsong... Big time 'yan eh...
'Wag mo na anuhin. Nanay n'yan senador, erpat n'ya general, kapatid n'ya kongresman, kapitbahay nila meyo --
A: Pwes ako anak ng Diyos! Tatay ko Poong Maykapal at utol ko si Hesukristo!! Ano?! Ha?!”
― Manix Abrera, Alab ng Puso sa Dibdib Mo'y Buhay!

“Education—Datu Khaled said—was ‘the path to advancement’, the only inheritance worth leaving one’s children.”
― Marga Ortigas, The House on Calle Sombra - A parable

“Banatan mo uli, p’re.”
― Marga Ortigas, The House on Calle Sombra - A parable

“If they don’t know what you’re thinking, they won’t know how to hurt you.”
― Marga Ortigas, The House on Calle Sombra - A parable

“Nakapagtatakang nagtataka pa ang nanay at tatay ko kung bakit di ako mapirmi-pirmi sa bahay ng sino man sa kanila. Bakit nga raw ba ako palipat-lipat ng trabaho? Bakit pabago-bago ng karelasyon? At paiba-iba ng mga kaibigan? Gusto ko sanang ipaliwanag sa kanila na kapag matagal-tagal ka ring naging bola sa pingpong, di mo maiiwasang makasanayan ang pagpapadito at doon, dito, doon at ang pagpapadoon, dito, doon, dito. At sandaan pang pagpapadito-dito at pagpapadoon-doon. Sa sandali namang matapos ang laro o kahit sa pagkakataong datnan lamang ng pagod ang mga manlalaro, hahayaan ka nilang gumulong-gulong sa kung saan-saang sulok, kahit pa nga iyong namumutiktik sa alikabok. Hihingal-hingal ka ngayong maghihintay sa kung sino man sa kanila ang may awa o panahon para yumukod at pumulot.”
― Bebang Siy, It's a Mens World

“Kung meron kang gustong patunayan, ihanda nang bonggang-bongga ang sarili sa mga posibleng mangyari dahil siguradong may kapalit ito. Minsan ang kapalit ay maganda, minsan matamis. Pero minsan din ay mahapdi at minsan naman, maalat. As in.”
― bebang siy, It's a Mens World

“Manghihinayang ka, tapos maiinis ka sa buhay tapos maiiyak ka tapos magagalit ka. Tapos mare-realize mo, wala ka palang magagawa. Hanggang ganyan lang ang papel mo: ang makaramdam ng ganitong emosyon sa ganitong pagkakataon,”
― bebang siy

“We were fightin' together...side by side, against the evils a' mankind.”
― Amanda Conner, Harley's Little Black Book

“If you don't think I'm a princess then you're 100% right, I'm the fucking queen.”
― Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti

“I'm with you until the end of the line.”
― Marvel Comics

“I felt like I could never get enough of you even if I melted into you like snow on wet grass.”
― Marvel Comics , Rogue

“I've been ready to die since before you was Born!”
― Marvel Comics (Sabretooth)

“I’m not saying it’s bad to put your heart and soul in everything you do, but you’ve got to leave some for yourself. And you’ve got to leave room for others to fill themselves up with their own hearts and souls. You can’t fix every problem by breaking off pieces of you.”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“Love was opening gates, letting in a person apart from oneself, hoping they’d fill the space of her empty rooms, and trusting them not to break her house... for what was the point of love if not showing both the good and bad parts, both the impregnable and vulnerable parts? Once we love someone, we could never really unlove them, could never really take away the rooms in which they inhabit, only dictate the spaces where they were allowed to occupy. There was really no going back once we opened the gates to someone else. They’d have left their marks inside.”
― Mica De Leon, Love on the Second Read

“When you work behind the ropes, you know the heartbreaking stories behind their smiles; you see the pins and nauseating amount of hair products that glaze their heads; and you see the wedges (even flats) under their eternally beaded gowns.”
― Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla, Before I Do

“I never really understood what a three-year itch meant because I never felt it before. Before Johnny, my relationships had a four-month expiration date.”
― Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla, Before I Do

“And yet, despite everything I just shared, I still couldn’t admit to another person that I am lonely.”
― Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla, Before I Do

“If I die of heatstroke, I want to be reincarnated as a beauty queen, I thought. Ma-experience ko man lang na sumakay ng pink na float at hindi maglakad habang nauusukan ng tambutso.”
― Kath C. Eustaquio-Derla, Before I Do