“The universe wraps everything up inside it, in the end,” Kaneta said. “Life, death, grief, anger, sorrow, joy. There was no boundary, then, between the living and the dead. There was no boundary between the selves of the living. The… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“Tapi, Indonesia menyimpan terlalu banyak rahasia. Dan keanekaragamannya pun amat kelewatan...” — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.” — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“I asked him what kind of consolation a priest could offer to people such as the parents of Okawa school, and he was quiet… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“Kaneta said, “What determined life or death? No Buddhist priest knows, no Christian pastor—not even the Pope in Rome. So I would say, ‘There’s… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“The universe wraps everything up inside it, in the end,” Kaneta said. “Life, death, grief, anger, sorrow, joy. There was no boundary, then, between… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“The earthquake is the thing that all humans face: the banal inevitability of death. We don’t know when it will come, but we know… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well,… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them, expectations of… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and a symbol… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“He said, “We realized that, for all that we had learned about religious ritual and language, none of it was effective in facing what… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
“The most important thing of all is to stay supple and flexible,” he said. “The moment you will be most stiff is when you… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image