“Habis kikis. Segala cintaku hilang terbang. Pulang kembali aku padamu. Seperti dahulu.”

“Mungkin, memang, travelling yang asyik itu bukan masalah siapa teman seperjalanan kita, tapi bagaimana cara kita memandang travelling itu sendiri. By thinking positively in every situation, you can enjoy the travelling itself, not fussing over whom you're travelling with." -p157”

“Tatap aku sayang. Lihat aku. Biarpun semuanya hanya kebohongan. Tetapi cintaku padamu itu nyata. Tidak berartikah itu semua kepadamu? Aku membohongimu karena aku mencintaimu, karena aku sangat mencintaimu!"~Rafael Alexander”

“I opened my doorand many, many crowded to come inI therefore pushed backthe walls of my roomto welcome all my guestsAnd the room became the homeof my friends and my room became the world.”

“To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia…in public…You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself…You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed”

“Basically, secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving; anxious people crave intimacy, are often preoccupied with their relationships, and tend to worry about their partner’s ability to love them back; avoidant people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.”

“The more attuned you are to your partner's needs at the early stages -- and he or she to yours -- the less energy you will need to expend attending to him or her later.”