“Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Mendoj që do të vijë një ditë që edhe hijet do t'i përpijë errësira.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like my hairstyle?" she asked. "It's great." "How great?" "Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. — 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
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs… — Patricia Barber Copy Share Image
“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Something presses on a part of the brain and makes people say all kinds of nasty things. You know it's just part… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Envoltos por uma agradável sensação de intimidade, conversámos acerca de tudo e mais alguma coisa. Quem me dera, também a mim, que… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. Do you see what I mean?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We couldn't bear to be apart. So if Kizuki had lived, I'm sure we would have been together, loving each other, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When Reiko left, I stretched out on the sofa and closed my eyes. I lay there steeping myself into silence when, out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She repeated what her mother had told me, that she had been moved when she heard me playing as she passed the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wasn't so bad when the two of us came to see you, though. He was just his usual self." Because you… — 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
“she started asking me all kinds of personal questions – how many girls had I slept with? Where I was from? Which… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image