“We had come face to face with a reckoning, as if we had to pay for all our sins in one go and yet find redemption at the same time…. Thousands had woken up, but no, this wasn’t like Indonesia where Suharto had resigned….”

DEMIKIAN Bernice Chauly, penulis Malaysia, berkisah dalam novel Once We Were There. Ini adalah kalimat tokoh protagonis yang bernama Delonix Regia, nama yang tak umum di Malaysia, karena ayahnya