Ghea

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Uang, berilah aku rumah yang murah saja,
yang cukup nyaman buat berteduh
senja-senjaku, yang jendelanya
hijau menganga seperti jendela mataku.

Sabar ya, aku harus menabung dulu.
Menabung laparmu, menabung mimpimu.
Mungkin juga harus menguras cadangan sakitmu.

Uang, berilah aku ranjang yang lugu saja,
yang cukup hangat buat merawat
encok-encokku, yang kakinya
lentur dan liat seperti kaki masa kecilku.

Kepada Uang”
― Joko Pinurbo, Selamat Menunaikan Ibadah Puisi: Sehimpun Puisi Pilihan

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe