Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say;… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes — 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
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases.… — 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
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
