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“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Kata orang, saat kita berhenti mencari, saat itulah kita justru menemukan apa yang kita cari. Saat kita tak bersiap untuk sebuah kejutan, hidup justru memberikan banyak kejutan.”
― Windy Ariestanty, Life Traveler

“You are allowed to express anything without any worries.”
― Windy Ariestanty, Life Traveler

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them”
― Sally Nicholls, Ways to Live Forever

“Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“Mas, kan kita pernah berbahagia bersama ?"
"Tentu, Ann."
"Kenangkan kebahagiaan itu saja, ya Mas, jangan yang lain.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Everyone owes nature a death.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Kalian boleh maju dalam pelajaran, mungkin mencapai deretan gelar kesarjanaan apa saja, tapi tanpa mencintai sastra, kalian tinggal hanya hewan yang pandai.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“The eagle flies alone”
― Soe Hok Gie, Soe Hok-Gie...Sekali Lagi: Buku Pesta dan Cinta di Alam Bangsanya

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ...
"HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Alas! Earwax!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone