"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind." — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — 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
All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything… — 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