“My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ” — 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
“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
“She smiles faintly, and it continues to hover around her lips. This puts me in mind of how refreshing water looks after… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that’s the way it goes, what’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a… — 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
“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've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not that everything about it was wonderful: his chest ached, he found it hard to breathe, and a far, a dark oscillation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we cant escape the fact that I am not enough for you. I knew this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time… — 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
“Reiko set the ball on the ground and patted my knee. "Look," she said, "I'm not telling you to stop sleeping with… — 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 guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for the perfect love?" "No, even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Number one of the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as much as You Want of the Food You Love… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read… — 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
