“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He and Eri had to hold each other now, as much as they wanted. They had to let their skin touch, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. In most cases, not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your problem is that your shadow is a bit - how should I put it? Faint. I thought this the first time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without… — 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
