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Berbuat yang terbaik pada titik di mana aku berdiri, itulah sesungguhnya sikap yang realistis.

Mendahului nasib! Dua kata yang menjawab kekeliruanku memaknai arah hidupku. Pesimistis tak lebih dari sikap takabur mendahulu nasib.

'Air mata adalah rasa asin yang sudah dipersiapkan untuk melengkapi kita. Jangan anak tirikan kesedihanmu. Garam>-mu. Ia menggenapi.'

‘In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.’

'Can you breathe okay with my head on your chest like this?'
'It's the only way I know how to breathe.'

Oh god 😢

'Words have a longevity I do not.'

'You can't reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.'

'A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationship we form.'

I don't like where this is going...

Baru juga cerita pertama udah terharu gini 🥲

'Stay here. Shop with us. Stay local. Not just at our store but at all these other stores. We’re all trying to survive. We’re here as a part of your community because you’re our community.'

"There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds."

Kami yang berduka tidak perlu diarahkan keluar dari rasa sakit kami. Kami butuh seseorang untuk menemani kami melalui rasa sakit itu.

Pertama, jangan membandingkan duka satu orang dengan orang lain. Kedua, jangan ajari orang cara berduka.

"Palestinians learned the first time in 1948 that leaving to save your life meant you would lose everything and could never go back."

"Boys treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."

Cerita kedua paling bikin sedih. "Tidak ada yang lebih menyakitkan daripada orangtua yang tidak bisa menyelamatkan anaknya dari keinginan untuk mati."

Kalau kita sakit, semuanya diambil Allah. Dosa, rezeki, kesehatan, pertemanan, keindahan wajah, semua diambil. Tapi begitu kita berhasil melewati ujiannya, lalu sembuh, semua dikembalikan, kecuali dosa.

"Bahkan, jika sebuah buku bagus diakhiri di titik yang tepat, dengan kata-kata yang pas, dan cerita yang lebih panjang justru akan merusak kesempurnaannya, pembaca ma-sih akan mendambakan lebih banyak halaman. Itulah paradoks membaca."

"Di dalam setiap buku ada jantung yang mulai berdetak ketika seseorang membacanya, karena tindakan itu menghubungkan buku dengan pembacanya."

"...pengoleksi buku seperti filatelis memahami sesama pengoleksi prangko: orang-orang yang gemar membiarkan pandangan mereka berkelana di deretan punggung buku, yang mengumpulkan buku di sekeliling mereka bagaikan sekumpulan kawan dekat. Di dalam buku-buku itu terdapat tokoh-tokoh yang seolah-olah memiliki keterkaitan dengan mereka, dengan nasib yang serupa, atau yang mereka harapkan akan terjadi kepada mereka."

"Konon, buku akan menemukan pembacanya sendiri walaupun kadang-kadang diperlukan seseorang untuk menunjukkan jalan."

"Saya menyadari beberapa dongeng tidak dimulai dengan once upon a time, tapi dengan janji surga, 'kalau saya terpilih, saya akan ...'"

"Di dalam kesederhanaan hidup, menurut Ibu, kekayaan kami adalah kebaikan dan keramahan. Di dalam keterbatasan kami, kelebihan kami adalah untuk selalu memberi."

"I don't think it really matters whether you know a lot about books or not. That said, I don't know that much myself. But I think what matters far more with a book is how it affects you."

"It's like the line from Naoe Kinoshita in Confessions of a Husband, 'My boat travels lightly, drifting aimlessly at the mercy of the current.'"

"It's only in secondhand books that you can savor encounters like this, connections that transcend time. And that's how I learned to love the secondhand bookstore that handled these books, our Morisaki Bookshop. I realized how precious a chance I'd been given, to be a part of that little place, where you can feel the quiet flow of time."

"For example, on a page of Motojirō Kajii's Landscapes of the Heart, I came across this passage:
'The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul.'"

"Little by little, I felt something wash over me, a feeling of peace that words can't express. If I had to explain it, I'd say it could only have come from the writer's fervent love for life. When I looked up, I realized the night was fading, and the day was beginning to dawn. I read on, turning one page after another."

"It's important to stand still sometimes. Think of it as a little rest in the long journey of your life. This is your harbor. And your boat is just dropping anchor here for a little while. And after you're well rested, you can set sail again."