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While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history, my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site, grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William More, the man who just told the joke. The navigator skillfully guided the flying disc among the dense orange-yellow blanket of clouds in the upper atmosphere that they had just entered. Some of the clouds were touched with a brownish hue at the edges. The rest of the pilots gazed curiously and intently outwards while taking their seats. The flying saucer descended slowly, the navigator’s actions exhibiting confidence. He glanced over at the readings on the monitors below the transparent console: Atmosphere: Dense, 370 miles thick, 98.4% nitrogen, 1.4% methane Temperature on the surface: ‒179°C / ‒290°F Density: 1.88 g/cm³ Gravity: 86% of Earth’s Diameter of the cosmic body: 3200 miles / 5150 km.
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Todor Bombov (Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel)
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Sebuah cinta memang harus diungkapkan karena tidak pernah ada cinta yang disembunyikan, kecuali oleh seseorang yang terlalu mencintai dirinya sendiri.
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Donny Dhirgantoro
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Setiap kamu punya mimpi atau keinginan atau cita-cita,
kamu taruh di sini, di depan kening kamu
jangan menempel, biarkan dia
MENGGANTUNG, MENGAMBANG
5 cm di depan kening kamu
jadi dia nggak akan pernah lepas dari mata kamu
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Donny Dhirgantoro
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Kemudian yang kamu perlukan hanyalah kaki yang akan melangkah lebih jauh, tangan yang akan berbuat lebih banyak, mata yang akan melihat lebih lama, leher yang akan lebih sering mendongak, tekad yang setebal baja, dan hati yang akan bekerja lebih keras serta mulut yang selalu berdoa.
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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Percaya 5cm di depan kening kamu
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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Sebaik-baik manusia adalah mereka yang bermanfaat bagi orang lain
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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Mimpi-mimpi kamu, cita-cita kamu, keyakinan kamu, apa yang kamu mau kejar, biarkan ia menggantung, mengambang 5 centimeter di depan kening kamu. Jadi dia nggak akan pernah lepas dari mata kamu. Dan kamu bawa mimpi dan keyakinan kamu itu setiap hari, kamu lihat setiap hari, dan percaya bahwa kamu bisa.
Apa pun hambatannya, bilang sama diri kamu sendiri, kalo kamu percaya sama keinginan itu dan kamu nggak bisa menyerah. Bahwa kamu akan berdiri lagi setiap kamu jatuh, bahwa kamu akan mengejarnya sampai dapat, apapun itu, segala keinginan, mimpi, cita-cita, keyakinan diri..
Biarkan keyakinan kamu, 5 centimeter mengambang di depan kening kamu. Dan… sehabis itu yang kamu perlu cuma kaki yang akan berjalan lebih jauh dari biasanya, tangan yang akan berbuat lebih banyak dari biasanya, mata yang akan menatap lebih lama dari biasanya, leher yang akan lebih sering melihat ke atas, lapisan tekad yang seribu kali lebih keras dari baja, dan hati yang akan bekerja lebih keras dari biasanya, serta mulut yang akan selalu berdoa..
Keep our dreams alive, and we will survive..
[5cm]
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Donny Dhirgantoro
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Gantungkan keinginan lo 5 cm di depan jidat lo biarkan mengambang, mengambang seakan2 lo meraihnya.
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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There's a monster living inside of me, eating little bits of me everyday, and I can't seem to stop it. It makes me do things I don't want to do, say things I don't want to say.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating...
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C.M. Punk
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saya mencintai negeri indah dengan gugusan ribuan pulaunya sampai saya mati dan menyatu dengan tanah tercinta
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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kita jangan sampai mau diatur oleh keadaan , kalo bisa kita yg mengatur . kita harus selalu jadi kalimat aktif selalu pakai awalan me- , bukan kalimat pasif dengan awalan di-
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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Relationships can't be measured with a clock or a calendar, Never. It's about getting each other. You get me, and I get you. That's the only thing I give a shit about.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
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Stand up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone...
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C.M.
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The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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There are only three kinds of kisses in this world: secret ones that nobody sees, the fake ones that everybody sees, and the real ones that only two people see. This one was one of those and I'll be damned, but it rocked my friggin' world.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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And a mistake made twice isn't really a mistake at all.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
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For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that light is worth believing in. Not just in others, but in yourself as well.
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C.M. Rayne (The Forbidden Land of Andara (Andara, #1))
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Semua persoalan di dunia pasti ada jalan keluarnya, tapi itu bukan dengan joget.
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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Books have ruined me for life.
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C.M. Kars (Never Been Kissed (Never Been, #1))
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When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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If I want reality, I’ll walk outside and breathe in the toxic air, dammit. I’ll take a look at my own miserable life. If I read or watch a movie, I’d better get a fucking happily-ever-after.
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C.M. Owens (Loving War (Sterling Shore, #4))
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I had a sudden and irrational fear that I was going to turn into Anastasia Steele and start spouting off things about my inner goddess and referring to my fucking cunt as down there.
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C.M. Stunich (Fuck Valentine's Day)
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If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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C.M. Stunich (Allison's Adventures in Underland (Harem of Hearts, #1))
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The hardest hearts are forged in fire; the weakest bend under their will. And revenge … is wicked sweet.
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C.M. Stunich (Filthy Rich Boys (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep, #1))
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Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.
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C.M. Punk
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I take a step forward but Naomi stops me with a hand on my stomach. Like a lost, little puppy I obey. Good Lord, where did my balls go?
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C.M. Stunich (Get Bent (Hard Rock Roots, #2))
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I could stand in the middle of Front Street shrieking like a banshee and nobody would notice me. You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. So stand behind me and think quiet thoughts.
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Cameron M. Hayden (The Reach Between Worlds (The Arclight Saga #1))
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Straight edge means I'm better than you.
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C.M. Punk
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I didn't realize you could break your own heart by hurting someone else's. (Mackenzie)
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C.M. Seabrook (Fighting Blind)
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Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there. Besides, reading a book gives me a goal. It's that sense of purpose that puts a temporary bandage over my uncertainty and lets me waste away the rest of the day without anymore negative thoughts.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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Sometimes pain is pretty, to the people who have too much of it,
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
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He's my..." It takes me the longest moment in history to answer this question. "He's my soul mate.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
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Just tell me you're mine, I'm yours, and you won't kiss, fuck or otherwise let any other man batter dip his corn dog with you.
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C.M. Stunich (Bad Day (Hard Rock Roots, #4))
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Prettiness is lent to you by youth; attractiveness is purchased with experience.
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C.M. Waggoner (Unnatural Magic (Unnatural Magic, #1))
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Crutches don't limit people with broken legs, sir. They let them walk.
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C.M. Alongi (Citadel)
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Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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It wasn't necessarily that I wasn't a fan of fairies. Really. It wasn't that. It was that I wasn't a fan of being taken hostage by a group of fairies.
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C.M. Stunich
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I have no doubt in my heart that I’d love my own child with everything in me. Other people’s children though, they’re . . . they’re just terrible.
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C.M. Nascosta (Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek, #1))
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No lies, remember? I'm dead fucking serious here. I am like, head over friggin' heels, butterflies and puppies, hearts and fucking kitty cats in love with you.
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C.M. Stunich (Finding Never (Tasting Never, #2))
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(...) before they actually admit to the big 'L' word. Love or lust - what's the big, damn deal? You're going to fuck either way, right?
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Never Ross, I heart the fuck out of you.
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C.M. Stunich (Keeping Never (Tasting Never, #3))
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When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed.
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C.M. Punk
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When you exist in the ugly, you learn to live in the beautiful.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
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Nobody listens when bad girls cry.
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C.M. Stunich (Havoc at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #1))
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I pull my cigarette from my mouth and take a look around, meeting the eyes of my friends carefully,so they'll know how serious I am right now. First person to laugh gets punched.“I'm in love.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
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I can tell you that she changed my life, and I think, somehow, I changed hers. We're good for each other, Never and me. Just two tortured souls tangled together for life. Just two, tortured fucking souls in love.
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C.M. Stunich (Keeping Never (Tasting Never, #3))
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I'm going to fall in love with him. I'm going to be head over heels and my stomach is going to hurt every time he walks into a room. I'm going to worry about him whenever he isn't there, and there are going to be times where I'll hate him. Because that's what love is. It's a kaleidoscope of emotions, all sorts of different colors blending together into one.
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C.M. Stunich (Losing Me, Finding You (Triple M, #1))
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There's a prime beef joke to be made here, I just know it.
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C.M. Nascosta (Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek, #1))
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I think the day handwriting disappears for good is the day humanity is really and truly fucked.
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
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As he soars, he thinks, suddenly, of Dr. Kashen. Or not of Dr. Kashen, necessarily, but the question he had asked him when he was applying to be his advisee: What's your favorite axiom? (The nerd pickup line, CM had once called it.)
"The axiom of equality," he'd said, and Kashen had nodded, approvingly. "That's a good one," he'd said.
The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that it must always be equivalent to itself, that it has a uniqueness about it, that it is in possession of something so irreducible that we must assume it is absolutely, unchangeably equivalent to itself for all time, that its very elementalness can never be altered. But it is impossible to prove. Always, absolutes, nevers: these are the words, as much as numbers, that make up the world of mathematics. Not everyone liked the axiom of equality––Dr. Li had once called it coy and twee, a fan dance of an axiom––but he had always appreciated how elusive it was, how the beauty of the equation itself would always be frustrated by the attempts to prove it. I was the kind of axiom that could drive you mad, that could consume you, that could easily become an entire life.
But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself––his very life––has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. The context may have changed: he may be in this apartment, and he may have a job that he enjoys and that pays him well, and he may have parents and friends he loves. He may be respected; in court, he may even be feared. But fundamentally, he is the same person, a person who inspires disgust, a person meant to be hated. And in that microsecond that he finds himself suspended in the air, between ecstasy of being aloft and the anticipation of his landing, which he knows will be terrible, he knows that x will always equal x, no matter what he does, or how many years he moves away from the monastery, from Brother Luke, no matter how much he earns or how hard he tries to forget. It is the last thing he thinks as his shoulder cracks down upon the concrete, and the world, for an instant, jerks blessedly away from beneath him: x = x, he thinks. x = x, x = x.
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Hanya Yanagihara (A Little Life)
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Books—even erotic ones … especially erotic ones—are simply reflections of the human soul. Sometimes they're silly and sometimes they're exaggerated, but it's through that enhancement of the world that we can see both its beauty and its flaws.
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C.M. Stunich (Groupie (Rock-Hard Beautiful, #1))
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This baby let's me take my low E string from an E Note to a D and back in a flash without having to retune. It can cry like a baby and scream like a devil; it's got angel wings and horns both,and it'll kiss you at the same time it fucks you. Not many dudes can top that,right?
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C.M. Stunich (Real Ugly (Hard Rock Roots, #1))
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Quotable Quote
“Mimpi-mimpi kamu, cita-cita kamu, keyakinan kamu, apa yang kamu mau kejar, biarkan ia menggantung, mengambang 5 centimeter di depan kening kamu. Jadi dia nggak akan pernah lepas dari mata kamu. Dan kamu bawa mimpi dan keyakinan kamu itu setiap hari, kamu lihat setiap hari, dan percaya bahwa kamu bisa.
Apa pun hambatannya, bilang sama diri kamu sendiri, kalo kamu percaya sama keinginan itu dan kamu nggak bisa menyerah. Bahwa kamu akan berdiri lagi setiap kamu jatuh, bahwa kamu akan mengejarnya sampai dapat, apapun itu, segala keinginan, mimpi, cita-cita, keyakinan diri..
Biarkan keyakinan kamu, 5 centimeter mengambang di depan kening kamu. Dan… sehabis itu yang kamu perlu cuma kaki yang akan berjalan lebih jauh dari biasanya, tangan yang akan berbuat lebih banyak dari biasanya, mata yang akan menatap lebih lama dari biasanya, leher yang akan lebih sering melihat ke atas, lapisan tekad yang seribu kali lebih keras dari baja, dan hati yang akan bekerja lebih keras dari biasanya, serta mulut yang akan selalu berdoa..
Keep our dreams alive, and we will survive..
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Donny Dhirgantoro (5 cm)
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I have a really nasty temper, and no restraint. I’ve basically got no impulse control, so I do whatever I feel like, the second I feel it. I’m also into really fucked-up sex.”
I blinked. “Oh.”
“Plus, since I got no impulse control, I tell girls I just met that I’m into really fucked-up sex.”
“You don’t say.”
“I’m a fucking mess,” he said, with the delivery of someone remarking about the weather, like, shrug, What can you do?
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C.M. McKenna (Badger)
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If I ever believe in something again, and it turns out to be false, then not only will my body crumble beneath me, but so will my soul. I'll disintegrate, disappear into the wind and blow away. I'll be nothing. I'll blank out and the energy of who I was will just go away, melt into the ground and come back as something unimportant, like a dandelion or a caterpillar. I can't find it in my heart to care.
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C.M. Stunich (Tasting Never (Tasting Never, #1))
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Taruh mimpi-mimpi kamu, cita-cita kamu, keyakinan kamu,
apa yg kamu mau kejar…
Kamu taruh di sini… jangan menempel di kening.
Biarkan…
dia…
menggantung…
mengambang…
5 centimeter…
di depan kening kamu…
Jadi dia nggak akan pernah lepas dari mata kamu.
Dan kamu bawa mimpi dan keyakinan kamu itu setiap hari,
kamu lihat setiap hari, dan percaya bahwa kamu bisa.
Apa pun hambatannya, bilang sama diri kamu sendiri,
kalo kamu percaya sama keinginan itu dan kamu NGGAK BISA menyerah.
Bahwa kamu akan berdiri lagi setiap kamu jatuh,
bahwa kamu akan mengejarnya sampai dapat, apa pun itu,
segala keinginan, mimpi, cita-cita, keyakinan diri…
Biarkan keyakinan kamu, 5 centimeter menggantung mengambang di depan kening kamu.
Dan…
sehabis itu yang kamu perlu…
Cuma kaki yang akan berjalan lebih jauh dari biasanya,
tangan yang akan berbuat lebih banyak dari biasanya,
mata yang akan menatap lebih lama dari biasanya,
lapisan tekad yg seribu kali lebih keras dari baja…
Dan hati yang akan bekerja lebih keras dari biasanya…
Serta mulut yang akan selalu berdoa
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Donny Dhirgantoro
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His bike was lying against the curb, and he righted it, holding the handlebars. “What I do, I do out of hate, not humanity. Because punishing assholes gets me off—not saving victims. And actually all this . . .” He cast his gaze around us. “This isn’t doing a fucking thing for me. So if you’re not going to jump, I’d just as soon be home in bed.”
Home. Well, there was one question answered.
Face burning, I shook my head. “No, I’m not jumping.”
“Great.” He slung a leg over his crossbar. Face utterly unchanged, the Badger drew his infamous Glock from inside his hoodie, took aim, and shot me in the thigh from five feet.
“Ow, Jesus!” White paint exploded across my favorite jeans, and a bolt of exquisite pain promised a welt.
“That’s for wasting my time,” he said, replacing the pistol. “I’m too fucking tired for false alarms, so next time have the decency to jump.”
My slack mouth produced no words. I watched him glide away, silent and passive once more. As ever.
I glanced at my palm, streaked with white from where I’d grabbed my leg. Looked and felt just like when a bird shits on your hair. You pray it’s a raindrop, but it never is.
Fuck you too, Badger.
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C.M. McKenna (Badger)