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“What would you call them in English?”
“Canadians,”

rereading this cause i dont remember anything but one thing i do remember…annabeth’s picture in percy’s notebook…this was life-changing as an 11 year old. and life-affirming as a 22 year old

“Musik tak sesederhana itu untuk saya, dan memang tak akan pernah […] Bersama musik itu saya dipahami atau disalahpahami.”

“Yang paling mudah dilihat, seluruh gambaran tentang “Kebudayaan Nasional” dari contoh-contoh di atas sepenuhnya beku. Ia mengabaikan bahwa dunia berubah, manusia berubah, dan yang paling penting manusia Indonesia yang memproduksi kebudayaan Indonesia juga berubah.”

how i feel abt bahasa indonesia

“Saya mulai belajar bahwa merasa berdosa berbeda dengan dosa.”

his thought process on guilt/sin…me as hell.

“Sembari menunggu mengulangi [dosa], saya mencoba meredam rasa berdoa itu. Dengan puasa Senin-Kamis, misalnya. Cukup manjur.”

“Orang yang memiliki kebebalan bahasa macam saya, bahkan tetap tak bisa mengingat atau menyebutkan judul lagu-lagu India yang saya putar setiap hari selama bertahun-tahun. Kami hanya…merasakannya.”

#jatimpride

random efek rumah kaca shade omfg

“It is hard to build a myth so large without eventually becoming part of it.”

“It was only my loneliness that ate at me, and it was this same loneliness that led me to betray myself in myriad ways.”

the introduction was so right in describing raif as hamlet-esque when it comes to making decisions and doubting himself over and over again

maria to raif: you are such an interesting guy…because you are like a girl❤️

and i love that for her

raif avoidant kinggg

reading les mis at night. relatable

“Rather than embark on the arduous task of getting to know each other, they preferred to wander about blindly, noticing each other’s presence only when they happened to collide.”

truly obsessed with the fact that tess was one of the stars of not-riverdale

“I want to work, and I’m lucky enough to be able to. Of course I’m grateful for that. How could I not be? Except, well, I don’t want to work. I really don’t. Life has nothing to do with work and work has no bearing in real life.”

a sentiment i have genuinely expressed so many times over these past few weeks lol

“The black birds in the big river belong to the factory.” […] “The river runs to the ocean. They could go anywhere. All they’d have to do is fly. […] It’s hard to believe some of them wouldn’t fly off to find a more forgiving environment.” “But they can’t fly. They can leap from spot to spot, but they can never go very far.”

the job interview & discussion on job hunting is kinda too realistic. ouch

“It isn’t the second crossover, the one that actually finishes [Michael Jordan]. It’s when he bites on the first, smaller one. When he admits a willingness to be fooled. It’s all a negotiation of what someone will open up their body to. A negotiation of disbelief, really: what can be sold and who is willing to buy it.”

“All of the best showmen hid behind their names and their gold.”

“No matter how obsessed you’ve been with your own vanishing, there will always be someone who still wants you whole.”

“There is something about setting eyes on the people who hold you up instead of simply imagining them.”

im getting to the part where it’s lowkey fall out boy rpf

this book, published in 2017, has a lot of thoughts about 2016 and how awful it really was. and i don’t know, it feels crazy to read it in retrospect in 2025.

“Sadness, when you are truly being swallowed by it, can feel almost universal. Not the vehicle that drives you to the doorstep of sadness, and certainly not the way it manifests itself inside of you.”

“I understand what it is to be sad, even when everyone around you is demanding your happiness—and what are we to do with all of that pressure other than search for a song that lets us be drained of it all?”

“Inside Terminal 5, under the spell of Carly Rae Jepsen, love is simply love. It is not war. It is not something you are thrown into and forced to survive. It is something you experience, and if you’re lucky enough, time slows down.”