Retno

“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

“Sometimes you can love something not because you instinctively connect with it but because another person does, and keeping their things in your heart takes you back to them.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“Pray.” “For what?” I asked. “That our house will never be broken into again?” “No. What happens to things is not important. Pray that your heart will be able to endure whatever happens to you in the future—your heart must continue to believe that the events in this world are not the be-all and end-all but simply transient unimportant variables. Beyond the everyday ins and outs of our lives, there is a greater purpose—a reason. Perhaps we don’t yet see or understand the reason—maybe our human minds are incapable of understanding fully—yet it all leads us to something greater nonetheless.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“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