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“Ada sesuatu yang hilang setiap kali kau bertemu dengan teman lamamu. Kata lama dalam istilah tersebut seolah menjadi pengekang yang membekukan lidah. Kau akan kehabisan kata-kata, bahkan meski kau menyimpang kenangan manis bersamanya. Kau tahu kau tak akan bisa kembali ke masa-masa itu, dan itulah yang membuatmu membujur kaku—mengutuk kelalaianmu sendiri untuk mengklaim balik posisi yang seharusnya sudah menjadi milikmu: seorang teman.

Tapi kau tahu kau tidak bisa melakukannya.

Kau bukanlah temannya lagi.”
― Alicia Lidwina

“I just always feel like an outsider. Abstraksi rasa yang ada di dalam gue tanpa gue tahu dari mana asalnya.”
― Farah Hidayati, Eksistensi Rasa

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
― Confucius

“Tapi perkataanku benar, kan? Kita tidak bisa mengatakan kita berteman dengan seseorang karena kita menganggap orang itu teman. Karena... bisa jadi orang itu tidak menganggap demikian,, atau bahkan malah tidak mau berteman.”
― Fakhrisina Amalia, Persona

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“silence has always been my loudest scream.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“i bet you regret making an enemy out of me.   -”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
― Malcolm X

“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Tapi aku juga sadar kalau kita nggak bisa mengharapkan sesuatu tetap sama seperti yang ada di memori kita. Kehidupan itu kan sifatnya dinamis. Pasti kita nggak akan mengalami hal yang seratus persen sama secara berulang.”
― Ria S.W., Off the Record 2