Devi Eriska > Devi's Quotes

“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, we wouldn't beg to be read to when we're kids. If they were just words, then they'd have no meaning and stories wouldn't have been around since before humans could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words then people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, stop aching because of them, have sex, quite a lot of the time, because of them.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“We are the books we read and the things we love...Our ghosts hide in the things we leave behind.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving

“Mungkin aksi Payung Hitam setiap hari Kamis bukan sekadar sebuah gugatan, tetapi sekaligus sebuah terapi bagi kami dan warga negeri ini; sebuah peringatan bahwa kami tak akan membiarkan sebuah tindakan kekejian dibiarkan lewat tanpa hukuman. Payung Hitam akan terus-menerus berdiri di depan istana negara. Jika bukan presiden yang kini menjabat yang memberi perhatian, mungkiin yang berikutnya, atau yang berikutnya....”
― Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita