Agnes Savithri > Agnes's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Mengapa benda mati disebut sesuatu yang mati? Terkadang mereka lebih 'hidup' dan lebih jujur memberikan saksi.”
― Leila S. Chudori, Pulang

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Semua orang ingin hidup bahagia. Kadang-kadang kita sendiri yang mempersulit keadaan untuk menjadi bahagia”
― Clara Ng

“Setiap huruf berloncatan mencari jodoh membentuk kata; setiap kata meliuk, melesat, dan mungkin saling bertabrakan dan rebutan mendapatkan jodoh untuk membentuk daya puitik. Setiap huruf mempunyai ruh, mempunyai nyawa, dan memilih kehidupannya sendiri.”
― Leila S. Chudori, Pulang

“Terkadang aku ingin mengintip takdirku agar hidupku lebih terencana. Tapi aku baru sadar, Tuhan menyimpan takdir untuk kejutan.”
― Clara Ng

“Semua perjalanan hidup adalah sinema. Bahkan lebih mengerikan. Darah adalah darah, dan tangis adalah tangis. Tak ada pemeran pengganti yang akan menanggung sakitmu.”
― Dee, Supernova: Ksatria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh

“Kadang - kadang pilihan yang terbaik adalah menerima...”
― Dee, Rectoverso

“Momentum tidak dapat dikejar. Momentum hadir. Begitu ia lewat ia tidak lagi sebuah momentum. Ia menjadi kenangan. Dan kenangan tidak akan membawa Anda kemana-mana. Kenangan adalah batu-batu di antara aliran sungai. Anda seharusnya menjadi arus bukan batu.”
― Dee

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“...bahwa dunia tempatnya berdiri tidak hanya hitam dan putih. Ada banyak warna di atasnya. Sementara warna-warna pun bisa berubah nama, bergantung pada kekuatan di luarnya yang memegang pengesahan.”
― Remy Sylado, Ca-bau-kan: Hanya sebuah dosa

“Sebuah kalimat akan menemukan maknanya dalam sebuah keinginan.”
― Goenawan Mohamad

“On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Black as night, sweet as sin.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Mantan kekasih persis seperti utang, kita tidak pernah betul-betul melupakannya. Kita hanya selalu pura-pura melupakannya.”
― M. Aan Mansyur, Lelaki Terakhir yang Menangis di Bumi

“Jakarta itu cinta yang tak hapus oleh hujan tak lekang oleh panas. Jakarta itu kasih sayang.”
― Sapardi Djoko Damono

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.

I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.

I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.

I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.

I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods