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"Do not trust yourself, when you know you are lost. A lost mind is the product of a diseased brain."

"I was protected. There was someone who worried about me, who got angry because what happened to me mattered as much as if it had happened to him. For a long time, I'd let myself feel like I was totally alone in this big world, but all along there was someone close by, thinking about me, looking out for me. That made me immensely happy."

"This shop might not be indispensable for most people, but if it matters that much to even just one other person, then I feel I can keep it going for decades. 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.' That'd how I want yo live my life with this shop,"

The Sisters story had me weeped!

Finished the first chapter on the Lovers. I think I will be having trouble registering characters' names, so that particularly slows down the reading as I need time to process who's who lol. But the writing and translations were beautifully done. I learnt many new vocabs from the first chapter alone!

Ada 1 babak tu penulis bagitahu satu karakter ni jamah Nasi Goreng Pattaya lepas habis kelas. Teringat dulu waktu belajar selalu order Nasi Goreng ni kat cafe untuk dinner.. terus rasa kempunan tiba-tiba haha besok lunch tu terus cari Nasi goreng Pattaya mana². Thanks Penulis buat saya imbau kenangan yang tak sangka ada signifikan dan dirindui lepas 3 tahun habis belajar.

The new revelation was interesting. I wonder how this will end.

"Although I don't know them and they don't know me. But I'm sure I can be useful, and the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."

I envy Veronika. She's living my dream-knowing her time of death.. living in institution brings the best out of lunatics. They are able to be themselves, unleash & discover abt her more than ever because there's no judgement, sane person around there. It's nice to be in safe haven/safe space, isn't it?

Grabbed this book because I'm having reading slump.. I noticed I'm always in the mood when it's fiction and indeed, I've not been able to put this book down when I started reading it, on 2nd day of Syawal 1444H to be exact. The opening was interestingly put.

Buku ini dibeli di Big Bad Wolf baru-baru ini. Terasa tertarik nak baca dengan nak faham apa makna berbudi itu. Fahaman cetek saya sangka ia membawa makna "baik" atau "lemah lembut" dan seangkatannya. Rupanya ia buku ini tentang wanita yang banyak berbakti dan layak dicontohi.

Memandangkan dah nak masuk Ramadhan, I don't see why not. Penulis² pun berharap pembaca buku dapat dekati Al-Quran dari karya mereka.

"Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas.....
....Feeling loss is a part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world (God) created for you."

"When someone passes, Benjamin, people always ask, 'Why did God take them?' A better question would be 'Why did God give them to us?' What did we do to deserve their love, joy, the sweet moments we shared?"

"Those moments are a gift. But their end is not a punishment"

"I realise now this was merely the weight of love that had nowhere to go."

what a beautiful phrase to describe the feeling of grief, lost of loved ones. MashaAllah.

"Can't you see we're slowly dying here?"

"People are slowly dying everywhere," he said. "They are also continously living. Every moment they draw breath, they can find the glory I put here on Earth, if they look for it."

Allahuakbar. This part made me remembers His Glory. The author certainly has its ways with words. Forever in love with his works!

Good read so far. I can relate with a lot what the author raised to her psychiatrist and had good learning/muhasabah. The dialogue format is helpful too to follow through.

"Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable" - David Augsburger