My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one can know everything about another person. Not even God, probably.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whether or not the person I think of as me undergoes any essential changes, the earth never stops circling the sun at… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Exactly. The person who comes up with the theory is the one who has to prove it,” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It… — 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
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
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
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
