“It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — 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
“For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He couldn't change my mind about him, though. I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you think music has the power to change people? Like you listen to a piece and go through some major change… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A simple change of scenery can bring about powerful shifts in the flow of time and emotions” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.” — 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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
