“A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Silence is not just the absence of sound: there is a sound called silence.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And each time he finished a sentence, there was a tiny but meaningful lump of silence left behind. This lump floated there,… — 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
“I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whatever the composition of this new world might be, I surely have no choice but to accept it in silence.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — 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
