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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Jika hati ini sebuah kompas ,
Letakkan kompas itu baik-baik di tanganmu ,
Biarkan ia sedia di permukaan rata ,
Jangan engkau sentuh jarum ini dengan jari-jari manismu ,
Nanti jarum itu terpinga-pinga ,
Berlari-lari malu meninggalkan darjah ,
Bawakan ke arah yang tepat ,
Berjalan depan ke belakang ,
Untuk pastikan jarum itu tidak terkebil-kebil lagi ,
Menunjuk arah yang benar ,
Jika hati ini sebuah kompas ,
Engkau sebagai utaranya .”
― Lelaki Introvert

“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
― Paul Sweeney

“It's okay to be yourself. An original always worth more than a copy.
- Alif , Velvet di Durham -”
― Aishah Madadiy, Velvet di Durham

“Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...”
― Aishah Madadiy, Velvet di Durham

“Siapa bilang, kebahagiaan seseorang itu terletak pada cinta? Kebahagiaan akan datang kalau kita tidak menghalang diri kita daripada mengecap kebahagiaan.”
― Syasyaja

“Learn about intentions, for their importance is greater than the importance of the actions”
― Yahya Ibn Abu Kathir

“Nobody likes being alone. I just hate to be disappointed.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“The man that decided to change on the 12th hours died at the 11th.”
― Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan

“Ramai orang berpandangan,
Kita perlu bercinta untuk mengenal pasangan,
Tanpa perkenalan, mustahil cinta bertandang,
Tanpa percintaan, mustahil keserasian dikesan,
Mereka sebenarnya terlepas pandang,
Dalam Islam ada taaruf dalam tempoh
RISIK
dan bertunang,
Yang melibatkan mahram bukan berdua-duaan,
Taaruf itulah mendedahkan keserasian,
Cuma takrif 'taaruf' dan 'serasi' dalam fikiran
manusia berlainan,
Islam mengajar manusia taaruf
yang ada sempadan,
Terpelihara dan terjaga dari kemaksiatan,
Bukan taaruf melalui bercinta sakan,
Islam mengajar serasi dengan ajaran Tuhan,
Bukan serasi dengan kehendak pasangan,
Cinta al-Rahman menjana kebahagiaan,
Lantaran itulah, batasan-Nya tidak boleh
dipermainkan.

-Monolog Asiah Yusra-”
― Fatimah Syarha Mohd Noordin, Tautan Hati

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“Cinta boleh lenyap bersama lenyapnya sebab. Kuingin mencintainya kerana Allah. Lantaran aku yakin, hanya Allah tidak akan lenyap.”
― Farhan Hadi Mohd Taib Fatimah Syarha, Cinta High Class

“Bila seseorang itu kerap jatuh cinta, ertinya dia belum berjaya mencintai diri sendiri.”
― Pahrol Mohd Juoi, Tentang Cinta

“Tidak payah bersentuhan tangan, kerana mereka sudah bersentuhan hati. Tak payah berbalas kerlingan mata kerana mereka sudah pun berbalas-balas doa.”
― Pahrol Mohd Juoi, Tentang Cinta

“Mata menilai kecantikan pada rupa. Akal menilai pda fikiran. Nafus menilai pada bentuk tubuh. Tetapi hati tentulah menilai pada akhlak dan budi pekerti.”
― Pahrol Mohd Juoi, Tentang Cinta

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

“Kakinya selayaknya teguh berdiri, tanpa perlu diangkat tinggi untuk terus berlari.”
― Amal Hamsan, Seyogia

“Jika ada kawan yang suka menghukum , perlu tahu seni mendidik. Jika ada kawan yang suka merajuk , perlu tahu seni memujuk. Jika ada kawan ynag payah berbincang , perlu tahu seni memulakan. Jika ada kawan yang suka mengata belakang , perlu berhikmah memberi peringatan. Jika ada kawan yang suka berhujah , perlu tahu seni memikat hati.”
― Fatimah Syarha Mohd Noordin , Cinta High Class

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

“Benang perak, benang baldu,
Mari menekat atas paya;
Pandang awak, hati rindu.
Mari dekat pandang saya.”
― Noor Suraya, Gadisku Wan Adnin

“Ketawalah kalau itu boleh mendatangkan kegembiraan kepadamu”
― Imaen, Blues Retro

“Orang yang jadi orang dia akan tahu siapa dia dan siapa tuhan dia. Orang yang jadi orang akan jaga hubungannya dengan Tuhan dia dan akan jaga juga hubungan dia dengan makhluk yang Tuhan cipta.”
― Imaen, Blues Retro

“Ting!Ajaibnya cinta. Kerana kita suka pada seseorang maka kita akan mudah menurut apa saja nasihat orang itu. Sekali beritahu saja sudah cukup. Sebab kita nak mengembirakan hati orang yang kita suka. Sebab cinta membuat kita mahu menjadikan diri kita menurut acuan orang itu.Tapi kalau tak suka,berbuihlah mulut syarah sepanjang hari pun, pahitlah sikit nak ikut. Jadi kerana itu kita kena pastikan kita jatuh cinta dengan orang yang boleh membawa kita ke arah kebaikan. Sebab kalau dia sebaliknya, mudahlah kita nak jadi jahat.”
― Imaen, Blues Retro

“Kita hidup bukan untuk memuaskan kehendak kita, tapi untuk cari reda Allah. Kalau kita betul cinta pada Allah, kita buat sajalah apa yang Allah suruh. Kalau ada apa-apa suruhan Allah itu bertentangan dengan kehendak kita, anggaplah sebagai bukti pengorbanan saja. Mana ada cinta yang tak perlukan pengorbanan. Cinta dengan pengorbanan ini lebih manis.Cinta yang telah teruji.”
― Imaen, Blues Retro

“My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!”
― Hlovate, 5 tahun 5 bulan

“Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia.”
― Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan

“don't trouble the trouble if you don't want the trouble to trouble you.”
― Hlovate

“Talking is nothing. Doing is something.”
― Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan

“Changing for good ain't a crime.”
― Hlovate, Versus