Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know something?" she said. "What?" "I'm completely empty." "Yeah?" "Yeah.” — 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
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dance," said the Sheep Man. "Yougottadance. Aslongasthemusicplays. Yougotta dance. Don'teventhinkwhy. Starttothink, yourfeetstop. Yourfeetstop, wegetstuck. Wegetstuck, you'restuck. Sodon'tpayanymind, nomatterhowdumb. Yougottakeepthestep. Yougottalimberup. Yougottaloosenwhatyoubolteddown. Yougottauseallyougot.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By… — 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
