“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters… — 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
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“she started asking me all kinds of personal questions – how many girls had I slept with? Where I was from? Which… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — 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
“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like my hairstyle?" she asked. "It's great." "How great?" "Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. Do you see what I mean?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just remember, life is a box of cookies. You know how they’ve got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We couldn't bear to be apart. So if Kizuki had lived, I'm sure we would have been together, loving each other, and… — 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
