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“I moved from body to body, treating blisters, wounds, frostbite. But I had no treatment for what plagued people most the most. Fear.”
          
          —Joana Vilkas, Salt to The Sea (Ruta Sepetys) 

"Kepada mereka yang dihilangkan dan tetap hidup selamanya."
          
          —Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita

"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
          
          —Chapter 9, The Mock Turtle's Story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” 
          
          “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
          
          —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Chapter 17, The Little Prince

"There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you 'wait' for." 
          
          —Jin Ling, The Walled City

"The fact that they have families and parents,” Eunsil retorted, “is why they shouldn’t do these things, not why we should forgive them."
          
          —Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
          
          

"Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life."
          — Herman Koch, The Dinner