...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

qysar_j

"Maka tidak adil la untuk manusia tu menghukum atas dasar masa yang dia tak ada kuasa ke atasnya..tapi masalahnya ramai manusia suka jadi hakim dengan keluarkan hukum-hakam tanpa soal siasat depan belakang. Sebab lebih mnudah untuk cakap beluncas yang berada di depan mata tu hodoh, berbanding sabar menunggu untuk lihat beluncas tu jadi kepompong dan POM! Jadi Blue Morpho yang lawa gilang-gemilang.
Kata kunci kat situ: sabar."

-Anthem, Hlovate

qysar_j

"Life, IS a wonderful journey. Don't be sad for the future. It is not here"

-Anthem, Hlovate

seribulan

“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
My Sweet Audrina, Virginia Andrew.

Wakefield

“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”

― Judith McNaught (Almost Heaven)

Wakefield

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”

― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

Wakefield

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”

― Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen)

Wakefield

"If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you're going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn't exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems."

- Linda Howard, Mr. Perfect

Wakefield

Willow : Where were you living when you were doing all this?
Guy : The Far East. Singapore. Kuala Lumpur.
Willow : Do you speak...Kuala Lumpurish?
Guy : Malay. No, I wish I did. But seriously, everyone there speaks English.

- Julia Hoban, Willow

seribulan

“Buku adalah sahabat paling setia
rela mendampingi sepanjang waktu
di mana pun aku berada
tanpa pernah memikirkan dirinya.”
― Abdurahman Faiz, Aku Ini Puisi Cinta

seribulan

“Buku yang kubaca
selalu memberi sayap-sayap baru.
Membawaku terbang ke taman-taman pengetahuan paling menawan,
melintasi waktu dan peristiwa,
berbagi cerita cinta, menyapa semua tokoh yang ingin kujumpai, sambil bermain di lengkung pelangi.”
― Abdurahman Faiz, Aku Ini Puisi Cinta

seribulan

“Pernah ada masanya kita tahu bahwa buku yang laris belum tentu buku yang bermutu. Pernah kita mendasarkan informasi kita tentang “bermutu” atau “tidak” kepada satu atau dua orang penilai yang berwibawa. Tapi dewasa ini, bukan penilaian para penilai itu saja yang digugat. Bahkan ide tentang “bermutu” itu sendiri sudah dirobohkan, seakan-akan di sana ada kekuasaan para cendekia yang memaksa.”
― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 7

seribulan

“Dalam perjalanannya dengan kuda berlangsung berhari-hari, setelah rehat, beliau membaca buku-buku ilmiah yang dibawanya. Membaca, bergaul dengan ahli-ahli ilmu pengetahuan adalah matlamat penting dalam program hidup Sultan Salahuddin al-Ayubi.”
― Syed Hussein Alatas, Cita Sempurna Warisan Sejarah

seribulan

“Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatut khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan.”
― Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

seribulan

“Bicara soal kekuatan Tarjdo, tidak gampang kalau rakyatmu miskin. Rakyatmu harus punya makan yang cukup dulu, punya pakaian, dan yang paling penting bebas buta huruf. Ini yang membedakan manusia dengan binatang. Sebab, kalau cuma makan, binatang juga bisa makan. Lantas, kalau cuma pakaian, binatang juga punya bulu. Buku, bisa membaca, itulah yang membuktikan manusia punya kebanggaan, punya kebudayaan, punya peradaban.”
― Remy Sylado, Ca Bau Kan: Hanya Sebuah Dosa

seribulan

“Memasuki taman seperti membuka sebuah buku: ada lorong yang terang, pohon-pohon hijau yang tersusun seperti kalimat-kalimat yang teratur, atau tumbuh-tumbuhan yang liar terbiar, dan kita terpesona dengan warna-warna bunga, permukaan rata yang sedikit curam, pasir halus serta batu keras yang berlumut disalut waktu.”
― Baharuddin Zainal, Edisi Khas Sasterawan Negara Monolog: Kecil Tahun-Tahun Gelora

Wakefield

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

- Danielle Steel,

Wakefield

It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different...

- Danielle Steel, Legacy

Wakefield

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.
- Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

bianglala

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”

What I Talk ABout When I Talk ABout Running ; HARUKI MURAKAMI

bianglala

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

For One More Day ; MITCH ALBOM