“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“By marrying her, Tony Takitani brought the lonely period of his life to an end. When he awoke in the morning, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the infinite loneliness of space, what could Laika possibly be looking at?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — 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
