Happy Stories, Mostly Quotes

“You know how it is. Men. They’re so good at regrets. Even in heaven, they wallow, demanding sympathy all the time.”
― Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Happy Stories, Mostly

“is any nation – especially a postcolonial one – ever not at a crossroads?”
― Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Happy Stories, Mostly

“I felt that such a story would prove useful someday — a bottomless pit of sorrow-bricks for me to mine, to build my Babel Tower of misery.”
― Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Happy Stories, Mostly