Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when… — 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
“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
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
“It’s true I’ve got a cold streak. I recognize that. But if they—my father and mother—had loved me a little more, I… — 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
“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
“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
“And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways,… — 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
“Aomame said, "It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim… — 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
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
