The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A special kind of hunger. And what might that be? I can present it here in the form of a cinematic image.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The world was a vast ocean with no landmarks, Kino a little boat that had lost its chart and its anchor.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Like fish that live at the bottom of the ocean, most of her dreams weren’t able to float to the surface.” — 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
