“Listen to this, Nimit. Follow Coleman Hawkins' improvised lines very carefully. He is using them to tell us something. Pay very close… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what… — 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
Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ] — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. — 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
