#hak

Eyyia?" said her husband, and Eliane bet Danel heard the mangling of her name as music. "You sound like a marsh frog," she said, moving to stand before his chair. By the flickering light she saw him smile. "Where have you been," she asked. "My dear. I've needed you so much." "Eyyia," he tried again, and stood up. His eyes were black hollows. They would always be hollows. He opened his arms and she moved into the space they made in the world, and laying her head against his chest she permitted herself the almost unimaginable luxury of grief. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#grief #ishak #love #marriage #tenderness

Apabila sebagai pengarang harus kutangguhkan begitu banyak ketidakadilan di tanahair sendiri, penganiayaan lahir-batin, perampasan kebebasan dari penghidupan, hak dan milik, penghinaan dan tuduhan, bahkan juga perampasan hak untuk membela diri melalui mass-media mau pun pengadilan, aku hanya bisa mengangguk mengerti. Sayang sekali kekuasaan tak bisa merampas harga diri, kebanggaan diri, dan segala sesuatu yang hidup dalam batin siapa pun. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#hak #harga-diri #hidup #pengadila #pengarang

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #century #creating #dante #dejan-stojanovic

Shakespeare is universal. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#universal

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market. ↗

— Richard Branson

#differently #go #i #i think #industries

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#classically #england #evolve #growing #growing up

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#embrace #first #handshake #perhaps #sentence

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. ↗

— Emile Lahud

#despair #frustration #liberation #only #our

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#brilliantly #difficult #discovered #easy #emotional