Retno

“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

“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

“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

“I’d made my sea garden to atone for the terrible wrong I had done to a man I loved, I said. Sometimes you have to do something with your pain because otherwise it will swallow”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy