“Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You have to look!" Johnnie Walker commanded. "That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And in that moment, he was finally able to accept it all. In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The total amount of time available is especially limited. The clock is ticking as we speak. Time rushes past. Opportunities are lost… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The passage of time usually extract the venom from most things and render them harmless.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You close your eyes, and all that comes to mind are the mistakes of the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.” — 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
“How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We create the story, and at the same time, the story is what sets us in motion.” — 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
