Maya

“Amat menyakitkan hati kalau kita mengadukan kesusahan yang kita rasakan kepada seseorang yang kita kira akan memperhatikan kita, akan menghibur atau meringankan beban kita, tetapi seseorang yang kita harapkan itu mengeluarkan keluhan yang sama. Seolah dia menolak kita, seolah dia hendak menunjukkan bahwa dia lebih sengsara daripada kita.”
― Nh. Dini, Pada Sebuah Kapal

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”
― Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker), Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

“I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables