“It was the first time he had seen her smile. It was the faintest of smiles, yet he felt the tides start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to her from the first time we talked, and soon there was no turning back. For a long time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive, somewhere along his back.… — 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
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the first time Junko felt a certain "something" as she watched the flames of a bonfire: "something" deep down, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But Aomame could never smile easily, or casually, in front of people. When she forced it, she ended up with a tight… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo realized this was the first time he had ever heard anything resembling polite language from Fuka-Eri's mouth. No, it might not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I noticed for the first time that his expression was completely changed - strangely expressionless, eyes out of focus. He seemed to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.” — 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 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
