“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, then a full… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. — 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
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All around him, for as far as he could see, lay a rough land strewn with rocks, with not a drop of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Seeming utterly fragile and vulnerable, the silhouette pulsed almost imperceptibly with the beating of her heart or the motions of her inner… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can… — 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
“The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second… — 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
“What was I hoping to gain from this?...Was I trying to confirm the ties that make it possible for me to exist… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The ground we stand on seems solid enough, but if soemthing happens it can drop right out from under you. And once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn't see it, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little world of hers.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of… — 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
“Nakata let his body relax, switched off his mind, allowing things to flow through him. This was natural for him, something he'd… — 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
