Ardy Nugraha

“To be a New Yorker is to be away from the city and feel like you are missing something”
― Bill Hayes, Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

“In life, there was so much insult and injury, and she had no choice but to collect what was hers.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?

You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Milan Kundera, Identity

“Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life