Tony

“Sungguh, teman-teman sekolah akan mentertawakan aku sekenyangya melihat sandiwara bagaimana manusia biasa berjalan sepeuh kaki di atas telapak kaki sendiri sekarang harus berjalan setengah kaki, dengan bantuan dua belah tangan. Ya Allah, kau nenek moyang, kau, apa sebab kau ciptakan adat menghina martabat turunanmu sendiri begini macam? Tak pernah terpikir olehmu, nenek moyang yang keterlaluan! Keturunanmu bisa lebih mulia tanpa menghinakan kau! Sial dangkal! Mengapa kau sampai hati mewariskan adat semacam ini?”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me, she'd have to write it on a piece of paper, like everybody else”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
― Oscar Wilde