“Champagne’s completely useless, you know,” he said. “The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It rained for a short time while I was running, but it was a cooling rain that felt good.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wished he could be with her longer, spend more time with her, have a good, leisurely talk. But she had her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo wasn´t certain that he was doing the right thing. Maybe the time he was spending here, in this room in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can’t. And time passing is one thing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Oh no, I thought, tomorrow is Sunday again! Sundays seemed to be rolling around every four days. Another two Sundays and I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, it takes quite a bit of time, plus effort, to go through each stage, step by step, and arrive… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“With Naoko gone, I went to sleep on the sofa. I hadn't intended to do so, but I fell into the kind… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter. The same thing has nearly happened a few times already. It's just a physical phenomenon, no more. The spring… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Blurring the line between possible and impossible, linear and non-linear time, fiction and reality, fate and free will, 1Q84 is both a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He wasn't so bad when the two of us came to see you, though. He was just his usual self." Because you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Until that time, I had understood death as something entirely separate from and independent of life. The hand of death is about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A simple change of scenery can bring about powerful shifts in the flow of time and emotions” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It's sometimes hard to avoid losing. Nobody's going to win all the time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. — 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
