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I am, the girl who writes.

"You should marry a girl who reads.  Marry a girl who reads. Marry a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Marry a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.  Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.  She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as
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Diciptakan jarak bukan supaya kita lelah menanti, tetapi supaya kita tak putus berdoa. --jarak itu bukan hanya ruang, waktu dan perasaan saja. Bukan juga semata-mata cinta sesama manusia. Atau jodoh antara manusia. Tetapi jarak antara hidup dan mati kita. Jarak antara hari ini dan akhirat. Jarak antara dosa dan pahala. juga jarak antara kita dengan syurga dan neraka. Semuanya diciptakan berjarak .  Antara kita juga, punya jarak. Yang cuma bisa didekatkan dengan   akad . Kerana Dia mahu menguji, siapa hambaNya yang tidak berputus harap pada Dia.