I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Blurring the line between possible and impossible, linear and non-linear time, fiction and reality, fate and free will, 1Q84 is both a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for the perfect love?" "No, even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But this is something that you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A certain something, I felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I forgot my eraser,” I told her, “so if you have an extra, could you let me borrow it?” She took her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I have always loved Naoko, and I still love her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have… — 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
