“Tsukuru’s mind grew still and tranquil. A quiet feeling, like a frozen tree on a windless winter night. But there was little… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“What's important is being attentive. Staying calm, being alert to things around you.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And in that moment, he was finally able to accept it all. In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood. One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As he made his morning coffee, Tengo found himself silently wishing that this peaceful time could go on forever. If he said… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Presently, I sense within me the slightest touch. The harmony of one chord lingers in my mind. It fuses, divides, searches--but for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo had no idea, of course, what Aomame had offered to the mood that time, but he could well imagine what the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lay down your mind and peace will come. A peace deeper than anything you have known.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — 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