“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love. ” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — 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
“In the instant Miu touched her hair, Sumire fell in love, like she was crossing a field and bang! a bolt of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.” — 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
“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
“Maybe it’s just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip and forgotten to come home. But falling in love is always a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y quiero que me… — 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
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He never had a positive feeling of love towards any of them, however. He just went with them and had sex with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yup, you're in a strange position, all right. You're in love with a girl who is no more, jealous of a boy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I must be in love with this woman, Sumire realized with a start. No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are… — 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 was not too crazy about sleeping with girls I didn't know. It was an easy way to take care of my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But I'm not hte only one to blame,' Midori continued. 'It's ture I've got a cold streak. I recognize that. But if… — 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
“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
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” — 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
“My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset. — 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
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
