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“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu.”
― Andrea Hirata, Sang Pemimpi

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Jadi, jangan terus-terusan ngelakuin sesuatu yang salah karena kita nggak akan bisa bahagia.”
― Donny Dhirgantoro

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Jika kita berupaya sekuat tenaga menemukan sesuatu, dan pada titik akhir upaya itu hasilnya masih nihil, maka sebenarnya kita telah menemukan yang kita cari dalam diri kita sendiri, yakni kenyataan, kenyataan yang harus dihadapi sepahit apapun keadaanya.”
― Andrea Hirata

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

“sejak bekerja di majalah, kami mengerti Valentine adalah momen dagang....Korbannya tentu remaja-remaja naif, orang-orang melankolis, yang tidak sadar uangnya dirampok siang-siang.”
― Syahmedi Dean

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ...”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan
kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu

aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada”
― Sapardi Djoko Damono

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“The day will come
When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will never let you be alone

The day will come
When my voice is no longer heard
But within the words of this poem
I will continue to watch over you

The day will come
When my dreams are no longer known
But in the spaces found in the letters of this poem
I will never tired of looking for you”
― Sapardi Djoko Damono

“Aku mencintaimu.
Itu sebabnya aku takkan pernah selesai mendoakan
keselamatanmu”
― Sapardi Djoko Damono, Hujan Bulan Juni

“Maka pada suatu pagi hari ia ingin sekali menangis sambil berjalan tunduk sepanjang lorong itu. Ia ingin pagi itu hujan turun rintik-rintik dan lorong sepi agar ia bisa berjalan sendiri saja sambil menangis dan tak ada orang bertanya kenapa.

Ia tidak ingin menjerit-jerit berteriak-teriak mengamuk memecahkan cermin membakar tempat tidur. Ia hanya ingin menangis lirih saja sambil berjalan sendiri dalam hujan rintik-rintik di lorong sepi pada suatu pagi.”
― sapardi djoko damono

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak