“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
“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
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
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
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not that everything about it was wonderful: his chest ached, he found it hard to breathe, and a far, a dark oscillation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She smiles faintly, and it continues to hover around her lips. This puts me in mind of how refreshing water looks after… — 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
“Where and how did my relationship with Kumiko go wrong? That's what I can't understand. Not that I'm saying everything was perfect… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A more pressing problem for me is that I have never been able to love anyone seriously. I have never felt unconditional… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Probably we’d have been better off born in nineteenth-century Russia. I’d have been Prince So-and-so and you Count Such-and-such. We’d go hunting… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.” — 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
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
