Desca Ang

“He wanted to be wanted, not simply be a body used as a means to an end.”
― Felice Stevens, Please Don't Go

“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman

“Apabila Paduka memang benar-benar mencintai dan menyayangi hamba sebagai 'garwa', sebagai 'sigaran nyawa' Paduka, hamba percaya, bahwa tidak akan ada yang tak dapat dipikul. Sebab bagaimanapun beratnya suatu beban. akan tetapi kalau kita tanggung bersama, tentu tidak akan terasa beratnya. Kakanda Pangeran tidak usah merahasiakan sesuatu, tak ada gunanya menyembunyikan hal-hal yang seharusnya dipecahkan bersama,”
― Heroesoekarto, Kisah Narasoma

“Jangan sebut aku perempuan sejati jika hidup hanya berkalang lelaki. Tapi bukan berarti aku tidak butuh lelaki untuk aku cintai. (Nyai Ontosoroh)”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia