Evi Cassiopeia

“Begitu seseorang mengenal konsep uang, maka ia menjadi seperti taksi yang ditancapi argometer. Mendadak ia mulai menghitung, mengukur, dan menaksir apapun yang dilewatinya”
― Dewi Lestari

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Ada batas ketinggian maksimum untuk hak sepatu. Yang menurutnya patut dikasihani adalah orang-orang yang berupaya untuk mencuat dengan berjinjit di atas kemunafikan, haus akan elu-eluan tak bermakna, yang meletakkan harga dirinya di sewujud tubuh molek, atau seraut wajah cantik tapi mati. Yang menggantungkan jati dirinya di gedung perkantoran mewah bertingkat 40, di besar kecil kucuran kerdit bank, atau di sebuah titel yang memungkinkan mereka membodoh-bodohi sekian banyak orang bodoh lain. Lalu mereka semua tak henti-hentinya merasa letih.”
― Dewi Lestari

“Belajarlah. Jika kau belum mengerti, kau akan melakukan kesalahan lagi. Tetapi itu wajar. Sebab tak ada satupun manusia yang bisa berjalan tanpa terlebih dahulu terjatuh, bukan? Tetapi, teruslah berjalan. Kapanpun kau merasa pintar, kau akan terjatuh—melakukan kesalahan. Maka teruslah merasa bodoh, sebab kau harus terus belajar.”
― Fahd Djibran, Perjalanan Rasa