“I'm not doing anything that is going to destroy my. Stillm there is something quiet left behind. Like sediment in a bottle… — 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
“When that girl left, she left behind this void. No, maybe not. Maybe she just showed me something that was already there,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I stepped out of the shower and dried my hair, rubbed on body lotion, cleaned my ears. Then to the kitchen to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was living at the bottom of a deep well completely shut up inside myself, cursing my fate, hating… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yes, perfection. it rests its full weight upon the core of the poor aunt's being, like a corpse sealed inside a glacier-a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What season?” I asked. “A delayed adolescence, I guess. When I get up in the morning and see my face in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He followed his daily routine, and she followed hers. But without her there, Tengo noticed a human-shaped void she had left behind.” — 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
