Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There wasn't a cloud in the sky, no wind, and everything was quiet around us - all we could hear were birds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had… — 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
