Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down. — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share
“Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them.… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.” — Ryu Murakami Copy Share
“Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“The song was the late Ishihara Yujiro’s “Rusty Knife,” and Sakaguchi’s singing was so bad that it gave the lyric a strange new pathos… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“But for all we’ve lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“We sat side by side on the swings. The creaking sound they made seemed sexier to me than a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
“Yeah. He wants to be a…what do you call those guys?” “A sommelier?” “Right. Said he wanted to see your collection.” “At fifteen he’s… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share
