“I asked him what kind of consolation a priest could offer to people such as the parents of Okawa school, and he was quiet for a moment. “You have to be careful,” he said. “You have to be very careful… — 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
