Valent Mustamin

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“Aku belajar bicara pada hening. Karena sepi sudah akrab denganku. Kematian menciumku, maka merah flamboyan tak cukup terang nyalakan mataku. Padahal denyar belum usai. Kuku kisruh masih mencakar-cakar.
"Andai semua makhluk yang bernapas bisa berterima kasih kepada kesalahan," begitu katamu. "Kamu baik, hormat, dan sayang padaku, dari dulu, sekarang, dan semoga selamanya. Aku bisa mati tanpamu," jawabku pada kabut.”
― Lan Fang, Perempuan Kembang Jepun

“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84