Kutipan dari Novel-Novel Berbahasa Indonesia

Saya baru saja melewatkan 10 hari liburan di Bandung, kampung halaman tercinta.
Tidak seperti biasanya, dalam liburan ini saya sama sekali tidak tertarik untuk wisata kuliner. Saya memang lapar dan haus, tapi bukan terhadap makanan, melainkan bacaan, terutama segala bacaan berbahasa Indonesia. Target saya yang pertama adalah Buku "Marmut Merah Jambu" karya Raditya Dika, blogger yang menginspirasi saya untuk memulai blog.

Ketika saya mencari buku tersebut di salah satu toko buku terbesar di Bandung, ternyata habis. Ketika saya tanya apa ada novel tetralogi Laskar Pelangi yang buku kedua hingga keempat, petugasnya juga bilang sudah tidak ada lagi. Jadinya saya membeli Power Bible Comic edisi 5-9 (karena saya sudah membaca edisi 1-4 di Singapura). Kebetulan sedang diskon 20% :) Kemudian saya juga membeli novel "Negeri van Oranje", "Negeri 5 Menara", dan dwilogi "Padang Bulan" karya Andrea Hirata. Plus, yang selalu tidak dilupakan, komik Detektif Conan! :)

Di hari-hari setelahnya, ketika mengunjungi toko buku di mall-mall, secara terpisah saya berhasil membeli buku "Marmut Merah Jambu", Novel "Sang Pemimpi" dan "Edensor" (buku kedua dan ketiga dari tetralogi Laskar Pelangi). "Maryamah Karpov", buku keempat, tidak saya beli karena kehabisan duit (hasil kekalapan membeli buku di hari-sebelumnya) >.<

Akhirnya, selain merayakan Natal bersama keluarga dan kumpul bareng teman-teman, liburan saya lewatkan dengan membaca buku. Kebetulan (?) saya sakit batuk berat dan sempat ke dokter, jadi saya mengisi waktu istirahat di rumah dengan membaca. Semua buku yang saya beli, kecuali "Power Bible Comic 9" dan "Edensor", telah habis dibaca. Dua buku favorit saya, "Sang Pemimpi" dan "Negeri 5 Menara", saya rekomendasikan teman-teman untuk membaca! "Sang Pemimpi", jika boleh saya singkat, mendeskripsikan secara kuat arti dari persaudaraan, pengorbanan, dan perjuangan meraih mimpi. Saya dibuat tertawa dan menangis ketika membaca buku ini. Sedangkan novel "Negeri 5 Menara" sangat menyentuh kalbu dengan nasihat-nasihat tentang hidup yang sarat dengan spiritualitas (karena buku ini berkisah tentang anak-anak yang bersekolah di pondok pesantren)

Di blog post ini, saya tidak akan memberikan review, tapi hanya mengutip saja, seperti yang pernah saya lakukan pada novel "Laskar Pelangi" di postingan terdahulu. Selamat menikmati kutipan-kutipan sarat makna ini. Semoga ini mendorong teman-teman untuk membaca langsung novelnya, karena dengan mengerti konteksnya tentu teman-teman akan lebih merasakan dan mengerti secara dalam apa makna dari kutipan-kutipan ini. Namun saya juga hendak memberi peringatan kepada teman-teman, kutipan-kutipan ini mengandung spoiler! Hati-hati!

Kutipan-kutipan dari Novel “Negeri 5 Menara” karya A. Fuadi (penerima 8 beasiswa luar negeri)

Halaman 0
“Orang berilmu dan beradab tidak akan diam di kampung halaman
Tinggalkan negerimu dan merantaulah ke negeri orang
Merantaulah, kau akan dapatkan pengganti dari kerabat dan kawan
Berlelah-lelah, manisnya hidup terasa setelah lelah berjuang

Aku melihat air menjadi rusak karena diam tertahan
Jika mengalir menjadi jernih, jika tidak, kan keruh menggenang

Singa jika tak tinggalkan sarang tak akan dapat mangsa
Anak panah jika tidak tinggalkan busur tak akan kena sasaran

Jika matahari di orbitnya tidak bergerak dan terus diam
Tentu manusia bosan padanya dan enggan memandang


Bijih emas bagaikan tanah biasa sebelum digali dari tambang
Kayu gaharu tak ubahnya seperti kayu biasa jika di dalam hutan
-Imam Syafii-

Halaman 35
“Menurut Pak Kiai kamu, pendidikan Pondok Madani (PM) tidak membedakan agama dan non-agama. Semuanya satu dan semuanya berhubungan. Agama langsung dipraktekkan dalam kegiatan sehari-hari. Di Madani, agama adalah oksigen, dia ada di mana-mana.”


Halaman 41
“man jadda wajada. Siapa yang bersungguh-sungguh, akan berhasil!... Inilah pelajaran hari pertama kami di PM. Kata mutiara sederhana tapi kuat. Yang menjadi kompas kehidupan kami kelak.”


Halaman 50
“Menuntut ilmu di PM bukan buat gagah-gagahan dan bukan biar bisa bahasa asing. Tapi menuntut ilmu karena TUhan semata. Karena itulah kalian tidak akan kami beri ijazah, tidak akan kami beri ikan tapi akan mendapat ilmu dan kail. Kami, para ustad, ikhlas mendidik kalian dan kalian ikhlaskan pula niat untuk mau dididik” –Kiai Rais-


Halaman 78
Aku sempat bimbang, kenapa orang diajar menjadi seorang whistle blower?
“Sekarang semakin banyak orang semakin tak acuh dengan kebobrokan di sekitar mereka. Metode jasus adalah membangkitkan semangat untuk aware dengan ketidak beresan di masyarakat. Penyimpangan harus diluruskan... Katakanlah kebenaran walaupun itu pahit. Ini adalah self correction, untuk memberikan efek jera. Dan yang paling penting, memastikan semua warga PM sadar sesadar-sadarnya, bahwa jangan pernah meremehkan aturan yang sudah dibuat. Sekecil apapun , itulah aturan dan aturan ada untuk ditaati.”


Halaman 106
“Jangan risaukan penderitaan hari ini, jalani saja dan lihatlah apa yang akan terjadi di depan. Karena yang kita tuju bukan sekarang, tapi ada yang lebih besar dan prinsipil, yaitu menjadi manusia yang telah menemukan misinya dalam hidup... Misi yang dimaksud adalah ketika kalian melakukan sesuatu hal positif dengan kualitas sangat tinggi dan di saat yang sama menikmati prosesnya. .. Carilah misi kalian masing-masing. Mungkin misi kalian adalah belajar Al-Quran, mungkin menjadi orator, mungkin membaca puisi, mungkin menulis, mungkin apa saja. Temukan dan semoga kalian menjadi orang yang berbahagia “


Halaman 112
“Sejarah bukan seni bernostalgia, tapi sejarah adalah ibrah, pelajaran, yang bisa kita tarik ke masa sekarang, untuk mempersiapkan masa depan yang lebih baik”


Halaman 139
“Tapi ini kan hanya masalah kecil, Cuma pelajaran kesenian,” bela Ayah.
“Justru karena ini hal kecil. Jangan sampai dia meremehkan suatu hal, sekecil apapun. Semua pilihan hidupnya ada konsekuensi, walau hanya sekadar pelajaran kesenian...”
“Tapi kan dia baru 6 tahun.”
“Justru malah dari usia ini kita didik dia.”


Halaman 157
“...Memang SMA itu masa yang indah... Kita Cuma agak stress kalau mau ujian saja. Selebihnya adalah bermain. Kalau di PM, setiap hari kita seperti ujian... Tapi yang indah bukan berarti masa yang paling berguna untuk mempersiapkan mental dan kepribadian kita.”

Halaman 253
“Karena saya tidak punya tanah, yang saya wakafkan adalah diri saya sendiri saja.”
“Artinya?”
“Semuanya. Semua waktu, pikiran, dan tenaga saya, saya serahkan hanya untuk PM. Tidak ada kepentingan pribadi, tidak ada harapan untuk dapat imbalan dunia, tidak gaji, tidak rumah, tidak segala-galanya. Semuanya ikhlas hanya ibadah dan pengabdian pada Allah... Bukankah di Al-Quran disebutkan bahwa manusia diciptakan untuk mengabdi?”


Halaman 296
“Jiwa keikhlasan dipertontonkan setiap hari di PM. Guru-guru kami yang tercinta dan hebat-hebat sama sekali tidak menerima gaji untuk mengajar. Mereka semua tinggal di dalam PM dan diberi fasilitas hidup yang cukup, tapi tidak ada gaji. Dengan tidak adanya ekspektasi gaji dari semenjak awal, niat mereka menjadi khalis. Megajar hanya karena ibadah, karena perintah Tuhan. Titik.
Begitu niat ikhlas terganggu, seorang guru biasanya merasakannya dan langsung mengundurkan diri. Akibat seleksi ikhlas itu, semua guru dan kiai punya tingkat keikhlasan yang terjaga tinggi yang artinya juga energy tertinggi. Dalam ikhlas, sama sekali tidak ada transaksi yang merugi. Nothing to lose. Semuanya dikerjakan all-out dengan mutu terbaik, karena mereka tahu, cukuplah Tuhan sendiri yang membalas semuanya. Tidak ada transfer duit dan materi di PM. Hanya transfer amal, doa dan pahala. Indah sekali.”


Halaman 405
“Negaraku surgaku, bila tiba waktunya, kita wajib pulang mengamalkan ilmu, memajukan bangsa kita”


Kutipan-kutipan dari Novel “Negeri van Oranje”
Halaman 290
“Blessed is he that learns to admire, but not to envy”


Halaman 427
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”


Halaman 433
“A country is only as great as its people... Kalau orang Indonesia sendiri gak membanggakan negaranya, gimana negara kita mau terkenal? Boro-boro objek wisatanya...”


Kutipan-kutipan dari Novel “Padang Bulan” karya Andrea Hirata
Halaman 188
“Duru guru mengajiku pernah mengajarkan bahwa pertemuan dengan seseorang mengandung rahasia Tuhan. Maka, pertemuan sesungguhnya adalah nasib. Orang tak hanya bertemu begitu saja, pasti ada sesuatu di balik itu.
Begitu banyak hidup orang berubah lantaran sebuah pertemuan. Disebabkan hal itu, umat Islam disarankan untuk melihat banyak tempat dan bertemu dengan banyak orang agar nasibnya berubah.
Namun sayang, tak semua dapat mengungkap rahasia itu dan beruntunglah sedikit orang yang memahami maksud dari sebuah pertemuan...”


Halaman 196
“Orang-orang itu telah melupakan bahwa belajar tidaklah melulu untuk mengejar dan membuktikan sesuatu, namun belajar itu sendiri adalah perayaan dan penghargaan pada diri sendiri.”


Kitipan-kutipan dari Novel “Cinta di dalam Gelas” karya Andrea Hirata
Halaman 98
“Berikan aku sesuatu yang paling sulit, aku akan belajar”

Halaman 99
"Maryamah adalah pribadi istimewa yang tak punya tabiat mengasihani diri. Ia tak pernah mengiba-iba. Kupandangi guru kesedihan itu. Hari ini aku belajar satu hal penting darinya bahwa jika tidak bersedih atas sebuah kehilangan menimbulkan perasaan bersalah, hal itu merupakan kesalahan baru, sebab kesedihan harusnya menjadi bagian dari kebenaran.
Pertemuan dengan Maryamah hari ini meletupkan semangatku. Aku telah melihatnya belajar bahasa Inggris dengan susah payah, tanpa merasa ragu akan usia dan segala keterbatasan, dan dia berhasil. Sekarang, ia siap berjibaku menguasai catur, dengan tekad mengalahkan seorang kampiun seperti Matarom. Ia tak dapat disurutkan oleh bimbang, tak dapat dinisbikan oleh gamang. Darinya, aku mengambil filosofi bahwa belajar adalah sikap berani menantang segala ketidakmungkinan; bahwa ilmu yang tak dikuasai akan menjelma di dalam diri manusia menjadi sebuah ketakutan. Belajar dengan keras hanya bisa dilakukan oleh seseorang yang bukan penakut."


Halaman 155
"Kami punya warung kopi dengan menu kopi miskin, yaitu kopi bagi mereka yang melarat sehingga tak punya yang cukup untuk membeli kopi biasa. Namun, ganjarannya, ia mendapat kopi tanpa gula sebab harga gula mahal. Maka, kopi miskin adalah kopi pahit, sepahit-pahitnya, seperti nasib pembelinya.
Pamanku yang berjiwa lapang dan merupakan umat Nabi Muhammad yang amat pemurah, menyediakan kopi miskin dalam menu warungnya. Sesekali, secara diam-diam, pamanku menyuruh kami mennambahkan gula untuk kopi miskin, karena ia tak sampai hati pada kaum yang papa itu. Namun, aneh, pembeli melarat yang telah terbiasa dengan kopi miskin malah tak menyukai hal itu. Pelajaran moral nomor 33: kemiskinan susah diberantas karena pelakunya senang menjadi miskin."


Kutipan-kutipan dari “Sang Pemimpi” karya Andrea Hirata
Halaman 60-61
“Setiap peristiwa di jagad raya ini adalah potongan mozaik. Terserak di sana-sini, tersebar dalam rentang waktu dan ruang. Namun, perlahan potongan itu akan bersatu membentuk bak montase Antoni Gaudi. Mozaik-mozaik itu akan membangun siapa dirimu dewasa nanti. Lalu, apa pun yang kaukerjakan dalam hidupmu akan bergema dalam keabadian... Maka, berkelanalah di atas muka bumi ini untuk menemukan mozaikmu!”


Halaman 120
“Betapa aku membenci WC. Di mana-mana, kita selalu menjumpai WC yang tak keruan. Di rumah-rumah, di sekolah-sekolah, di jamban umum, di terminal, di kantor-kantor pemerintah, bahkan di rumah-rumah sakit. Mengapa banyak orang Indonesia jorok?” :p


Halaman 133
“Namun, tak pernah kusadari bahwa sikap realistis itu sesungguhnya mengandung bahaya sebab ia memiliki hubungan dekat degan rasa pesimis. Realistis tak lain adalah pedal rem yang sering menghambat harapan orang.”


Akhir kata, saya senang karena banyak novel-novel Indonesia sekarang yang menyinggung tentang dunia pendidikan sehingga pada saat membacanya orang-orang Indonesia bisa terdorong untuk terus belajar, menimba ilmu ke negara lain, menimba ilmu setinggi langit, menimba ilmu dunia dan akhirat *yang seharusnya tak terpisahkan*.
Saya pun dibuat semangat untuk memulai, setidaknya, semester berikutnya. Selamat datang tahun baru dan semester baru! :)

The Near Future

Future... I like to think about the future, especially my future. And lately I thought a lot about it.
It makes me excited, but also apprehensive.

1. China trip
Excited because I will see and do a lot of new things, but apprehensive because of the language. Last Friday was my last day to work full time in my company. Previously I thought that I could use this two full weeks (until 10 May) to learn basic Mandarin conversation. But now, the company asked me to work part-time everyday (2-6pm) because they haven't found out a replacement for me. There gone my studying time... I think later I will count on my Mandarin phrasebook and dictionary :p
Still not sure whether I should go to Shanghai from Beijing. If the trip with Rev. HR is confirmed then I won't go to Shanghai as I will spend the last 5 days in China getting involve in his team. He needs to get the visa to go there. I haven't applied for any visa also.
Anyway, I think my boss will even go to the extent of asking me to cancel my trip to China and will reimburset the ticket cost.
Hmm... waiting for His answer... really need His spirit of discernment...

2. June holiday
Coming back from China will be a full month holiday in June. Excited because I will spend time with my parents in Phuket and after that will go back to Bandung, but apprehensive of what I should do for 2 weeks plus in Bandung.

3. Trinity T. College Life
This is the most exciting part, and as a result... it is the thing that makes me most apprehensive.
A lot of questions came up into my mind:
Why TTC? What will happen? Will I be able to cope with lessons & reading materials? Will I be busy with classes and papers? Will I be able to cope with the great minds of the lecturers from various school of thoughts?
Other than that, it's about the scholarship. It motivates me to study well. I want my college days back. I studied International Relations and I loved it, so all the classes and reading materials were not a burden for me. Well... I hope it also will apply in my Theological study. I love God, so study Theology is not supposed to be a burden for me, but a process to enjoy.
But the problem is, scholarship also means there are some expectations from others (the church and organisation that funded me). I don't like to think about human's expectations. For me, God's expectation for me is the most important thing. But... I cannot just disregard their expectation. They are still the people whom God used to fund my study.
The situation is quite complicated I guess.

Well, I'm basically a phlegmatic. And one disadvantage of being a phlegmatic is they are coward. They are afraid to confront people. They are afraid of rejection. They are afraid of hurting people or being hurt by others therefore they don't like to build a deep relationship. They are afraid of challenges, sufferrings and failure... They constantly look for comfort zone.

Many times when I think about the future, fear will take charge. It IS dangerous.

In times like this, I always find comfort from Elisabeth Elliot's writing on the famous (and one of my favourite) hymn by Horatio Spafford, "It is Well with My Soul". It is the first chapter of her book, Secure in the Everlasting Arms. Here is the excerpts:

Just after the Arab-Israeli War in 1967, I spent 10 weeks in Jerusalem. One afternoon I was invited to have tea with Mrs. Bertha Spafford Vester, who had lived there all of her 91 years, a fascinating woman. She was the fifth daughter of Horatio Spafford, who wrote "It Is Well With My Soul."

I remember sitting in the small dining room of the beautiful hotel where I was staying, which had been the home of the Spafford family, and I noticed this old lady. She fascinated me. She happened to sit just across from me and I could sit there and watch her eat and watch her talk to the servants, all of whom of course she knew because she lived there in that hotel. And I wondered who she was and finally I asked my waiter and he told me that her name was Mrs. Bertha Spafford Vester. I remembered that name, Spafford, and somehow or other--I don't really know how in the world it happened--she found out that I was in the hotel and might enjoy having a cup of tea with her. So that is what happened.

The story of that beautiful hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul," is familiar, I'm sure, to very many of you. But Mrs. Vester added many details that were certainly brand-new to me.

The great Chicago fire of the 1870s caused Spafford, a wealthy businessman, to take stock of his life. Wanting to know Jesus better, he decided to sell everything and move to the land where He had walked. "He" was capitalized, meaning where Jesus had walked. Shortly before the ship sailed, he was delayed by business but took the family to New York. For some reason that he was unable to explain, he had the purser change their cabin, moving them closer to the bow. He returned to Chicago to finish his business.

Then came a telegram: "Saved alone." The ship had sunk. Mrs. Spafford had survived. Their four daughters had perished. Had they been in the cabin originally reserved amidships, all five would have been drowned, for it was just there that the steamer had been struck by another vessel.

As we sipped tea and munched on Arab sweets, Mrs. Vester, who was not born until after the disaster, told me how her mother had described that terrible, black night when she and her four little girls were flung into the cold sea. Frantically, she had tried to save them. Barely she had been able to touch just with her fingertips the hem of the little gown of one of her babies, but she could not grasp it. She herself had been miraculously rescued as she floated unconscious on a piece of flotsam.

During Mr. Spafford's voyage to join his wife in France, the captain summoned him one day to the bridge. Pointing to his charts, he explained that it was just here, where they were at that moment, that the other ship had gone down. Spafford returned to his cabin and wrote the hymn which has comforted countless thousands:

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll--
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

That word "lot" is not one we use in quite that way. It means whatever happens, that which comes by the will of the powers that rule our destiny, a share, a portion, an assignment. When we draw lots, no human power controls which will be ours. But Christians know that we are not at the mercy of chance. A loving hand, a great wisdom, and an omnipotent power rule our destiny.

The government of all is on the mighty shoulders of Christ Himself, who sees all long before it happens. All is intended for our blessing. How different things look. Yet think of the faith of Horatio Spafford, suffering the loss of all his children and writing, "Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well."

To love God is to love His will. That which He gives we receive. That which He takes, we relinquish, as glad to know ourselves in the hands of God as we should be sorry to be in our own, as Fenelon said. As glad to know ourselves in the hands of God as we should be sorry to be in our own. Wouldn't you rather be in the hands of God?

With what astonishment of gladness or sadness we receive some things. With what reluctance or delight we relinquish others. Yet we find that we can bear our own sufferings while of others' sufferings we say, "I could never bear that."

My friend Jim, whose wife has cancer, wrote to me. "The assignment is so hard, but always there are the gracious gifts, the winks of heaven--a friend stopping by, a plumber coming at the perfect moment. Coincidences? Not to one with the eyes of faith. God shields us from most of the things that we fear, but when He chooses not to shield us, He unfailingly allots grace in the measure needed. It is for us to choose to receive or refuse it. Our joy or our misery will depend on that choice."

"LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; and have made my lot secure." Psalm 16:5

What an encouragement! In times of worries and fear, I sometimes would say, "Whatever my lot." and it will remind me of this beautifully-written and God-inspired article.

A "Spiritual Giant" That Has Been A Source of Inspiration for A Woman That Has Been An Inspiration For Me

by Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael’s Confession of Love

My Vow
Whatsoever Thou sayest unto me, by Thy grace I will do it.

My Constraint
Thy love, O Christ, my Lord.

My Confidence
Thou art able to keep that which I have committed unto Thee.

My Joy
To do Thy will, O God.

My Discipline
That which I would not choose, but which Thy love appoints.

My Prayer
Conform my will to Thine.

My Motto
Love to live, live to love.

My Portion
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance.

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labor and not to ask for any reward
save that of knowing that we do Thy will, O Lord our God.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Quoted from
The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael—A Chance to Die
written by Elisabeth Elliot.
This was Amy Carmichael’s Confession of Love.
Amy Carmichael (1867-1951) was an Irish missionary to India.
She spent fifty-three years in South India without furlough.
She was known as “Amma” or “mother” by the hundreds of children that she
rescued from moral danger and raised to love and know Jesus Christ.
Amy was a Godly woman who gave her life unreservedly to serve the Lord.

Note:
Hope you understand the title :)

Hint:
A woman that has been an inspiration for me = Elisabeth Elliot

Life... It Is Indeed Beautiful...

Just grateful for the life I'm living now :) It's so beautiful to walk with Him!
Thanking Him for the long time He has given me to really2 stop from the great and drifting wave of my life last year...
To stop... To re-think about my life and my dream.... and to re-aligned it with His will...
God, what a slow thinker I am... You need months to really open my eyes... So long ah... Really sorry... :p

I've been abundantly recharged now.
Am ready. Ready even for any giant waves that will come ahead.

I just can't wait to go to work... so excited... but must wait for Your time, rite?

And for you, my friend, I want to share an inspiring e-mail I received today...

Life is Like Hot Chocolate
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this:
Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate.

Greatness

David Naugle of DBU tells us that there are three marks of a great person:
- One who is a great thinker
- One who is a great lover
- One who is a great doer

Quote dari "Laskar Pelangi"

Warning! Ini mengandung spoiler!

Beberapa hari lalu gua selesai baca novel "Laskar Pelangi" karya Andrea Hirata. Ada satu paragraf yang kadang masih terngiang2 di kepala gua sampe bikin gua membuka halaman itu dan ngebacanya lagi.

"... maka sekarang aku marah, aku kecewa pada kenyataan begitu banyak anak pintar yang harus berhenti sekolah karena alasan ekonomi. Aku mengutuki orang-orang bodoh sok pintar yang menyombongkan diri, dan anak-anak orang kaya yang menyia-nyiakan kesempatan pendidikan." - Laskar Pelangi, oleh Andrea Hirata, halaman 472

Kalo baca bukunya dari awal, pas baca paragraf ini pasti feeling-nya dapet banget. Bakal baca sambil membara-bara deh!