Trinity

“Kehangatan terpancar dari mata mereka. Tidak lagi bergejolak, tetapi hangat. Hangat yang tampaknya kekal. Bukankah itu yang semua orang cari?”
― Dee Lestari, Supernova: Ksatria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh

“Ketika kita balikan cara pandang kita, kenyataan pun berubah. Ternyata, pelacuran terjadi di mana-mana. Hampir semua orang melacurkan waktu, jati diri, pikiran bahkan jiwanya. Dan bagaimana kalau ternyata itulah pelacuran yang paling hina?”
― Dee Lestari, Supernova: Ksatria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh

“Why does the night have to be so beautiful? As I walk through the night, I remember what Mitsutsuka said to me. “Because at night, only half the world remains.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

“She closes her eyes. He probably won’t come back, she thinks. Or he will, differently. What they have now they can never have back again. But for her the pain of loneliness will be nothing to the pain that she used to feel, of being unworthy. He brought her goodness like a gift and now it belongs to her. Meanwhile his life opens out before him in all directions at once. They’ve done a lot of good for each other. Really, she thinks, really. People can really change one another.
You should go, she says. I’ll always be here. You know that.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People