

“You don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not.”
― Just One Year
― Just One Year

“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasn’t gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way.”
― The Giver
― The Giver

“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat.”
― The Giver
― The Giver

“It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you.”
― Love Letters to the Dead
― Love Letters to the Dead

“It was as simple as that. Once he had yearned for choice. then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving.
But if he had stayed...
His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.”
― The Giver
But if he had stayed...
His thoughts continued. If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.”
― The Giver

Kumpulan interaksi bersama penulis dan pembaca karya-karya Hasrizal Abdul Jamil semenjak Saifulislam.Com (1997) dan buku Aku Terima Nikahnya (2008)
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