R I K A

“When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's Zero Hour.”

He paused.

“It's Zero Hour now.”
― Agatha Christie, Towards Zero

“Bagi sebagian orang kebenaran itu penting, sebab mereka dapat menerimanya. Mereka dapat menghadapi kebenaran dengan tabah - ketabahan yang hanya dimiliki orang-orang yang mengharapkan kehidupan yang cerah.”
― Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember

“Semua orang aneh dengan caranya sendiri. Terkadang keanehanmu tidak cocok dengan keanehan orang lain, jadi mereka menyebutmu aneh. Tetapi terkadang keanehanmu cocok dengan keanehan seseorang, dan kalian bisa berteman.”
― Annisa Ihsani, Teka-Teki Terakhir

“I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase