“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A certain something, I felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I forgot my eraser,” I told her, “so if you have an extra, could you let me borrow it?” She took her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Aomame said, "It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nestled next to me, she nodded. “I’m fine. As long as I take the medicine. So don’t worry.” She leaned her head… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Probably we’d have been better off born in nineteenth-century Russia. I’d have been Prince So-and-so and you Count Such-and-such. We’d go hunting… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wonder what either of us knows about love. Our love has never been tested.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
