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“manusia mungkin tidak punya kapasitas untuk mengampuni (barangkali hanya Tuhan yang bisa mengampuni), maka yang bisa kita lakukan adalah berdamai. Berdamai dengan sisi gelap yang tak bisa kita kuasai”
― Ayu Utami, Manjali dan Cakrabirawa

“Jika kebetulan terjadi terlalu banyak, apakah kamu percaya bahwa itu tidak bermakna?”
― Ayu Utami, Manjali dan Cakrabirawa

“Modernisme adalah alat untuk memperalat. Takhayul adalah alat untuk diperalat”
― Ayu Utami, Bilangan Fu

“Jika kebetulan terjadi terlalu banyak, seorang ilmuwan akan mencari pola, dan seorang beriman akan mencari Tuhan”
― Ayu Utami

“untuk negriku Indonesia yang dengan sedih aku cinta”
― Ayu Utami

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris