Rininta

“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

“Begitu dingin air itu ketika ia memasukkan kedua tangannya. Begitu jelas kedua tangnnya tampak di sana, dan betapa hal semacam itu memberikan kedamaian.

Tapi mengapa begitu sulit manusia menemukan kedamaian?

Ia membasuk wajahnya dengan air jernih dan dingin itu. Betapa hidup bagaikan menjadi baru kembali. Ia minum setguk dua teguk dari aliran bening itu. Betapa dunia berdenyut dengan tenaga yang baru sama sekali.

Tapi mengapa manusia begitu sulit mendapatkan sesuatu yang baru untuk hidupnya?

Jika kedamaian begitu sederhana, mengapa manusia tak mampu melihatnya?”
― Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Kitab Omong Kosong

“Yes, of course. If you love anyone, you cannot help but share his suffering. If we love our Lord, not just admire him or fear him or want things from him, we must recognize his feelings; he must be in anguish over our sins. We must understand this anguish. The Lord suffers with us. He suffers like us. It is a consolation to know this. To know that we are not in fact alone in our suffering.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko