Ranting Quotes

“PERCAKAPAN DUA RANTING

kalau pernah kamu bertemu dulu, apa yang
kau inginkan nanti? sepi. kalau nanti kau
dapatkan cinta, bagaimana kau tempatkan
waktu? sendiri. bila hari tak lagi berani
munculkan diri, dan kau tinggal untuk
menanti? cari. andai bumi sembunyi saat
kau berlari? mimpi. lalu malam menyer-
gapmu dalam pandang tiada tepi? hati.
baik...aku tak lagi memberimu mungkin?
kecuali. baik..baik, aku hanya akan menya-
pamu tanpa kecuali? mungkin. dan jika
tetap seperti itu, embun takkan jatuh dari
kalbumu? sampai. akankah kau patahkan
tubuhmu hingga musim tiada berganti?
mari. lalu kau tumbuhkan bunga tanpa
kelopak tanpa daun berhelai-helai? kemari.
juga kau benamkan yang lain dalam jurang
di matamu? aku. katakan bahwa kau mene-
rimamu seperti aku memberimu?...
kau? ya. kau?...aku.


Besancon, oktober sebelas 1997.”
― Radhar Panca Dahana, Lalu Batu: Antologi Puisi

“I’m just confused. Everything’s confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It’s like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you’re standing looks like dirt with hair.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lost at Sea

“I'm sorry, I didn't mean--"
"To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

“I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.”
― Mark E. Smith, Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith

“Following his rant littered with narcissism, she calmly responded, '...You have quite the little ego, don't you?' And with little thought, he then quickly retorted, 'What do you mean 'little'!?”
― Criss Jami