Kotak Cokelat
Untuk kutipan yang mengandung kata ' a box of chocolates ', sebagian besar dari kita mungkin akan langsung terbayang dialog Forrest Gump yang berikut: My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Tapi bagi saya, kutipan dari serial The X-Files episode Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996) terasa lebih menyentuh: Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast and the taste is... fleeting. So, you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you got...