Retno

“He opened his damp eyes again to stare at the cross on the altar. He might not believe, but the cross meant something to him, nonethe-less. It stood for Ted and Joan, for order and stability, but also for the unknowable and unresolvable, for the human craving for meaning in chaos, and for the hope of something beyond the world of pain and endless striving. Some mysteries were eternal and unresolvable by man, and there was relief in accepting that, in admitting it. Death, love, the endless complexity of human beings: only a fool would claim to fully understand any of them.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

“Eh agamamu apa?" Kepala saya tuing tuing.
Saya berpikir apakah kopi tokcer dan kue enak
yang membahagiakan itu mengandung agama.
Sambil buru-buru undur diri, saya menimpal,
"Tuhan saja tidak pernah bertanya apa agamaku.”
― Joko Pinurbo, Buku Latihan Tidur: Kumpulan Puisi

“Does this story have a happy ending?" Bobby asked.
"There is no such thing as an ending," she said. "Good things come out of bad things and bad things come out of good things, but it always continues. It's as in life. Books are life. There is just the part you read. They start before that. They finish after it. Everything carries on forever. You are only in it for those pages, for a tiny window of time.”
― David Whitehouse

“Sometimes a person can smile when you are feeling only the difficulty of a thing and the problem unravels before your eyes and becomes straightforward.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy