Elif Safak: "Anak itu memang diam, tetapi semua pertanyaan yang menump...

"Anak itu memang diam, tetapi semua pertanyaan yang menumpuk di lidahnya beredar di mulutnya, bergerak melalui bagian hidungnya dan naik dari sana untuk menggelitik saluran air mata, jadi di pupilnya yang hijau, penasaran, ngotot , tuduhan percikan pertanyaan terus menyala dan menghilang seperti kunang-kunang melintas di malam musim panas."

--- Elif Safak

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The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of his nose and climbed up from there to tickle into his teardrop ducts, so in his moss green pupils, curious, insistent, accusing sparks of questions continued to light up and fade away like fireflies flitting about on summer nights.