“Violence does not always take physical form, and not all wounds gush blood.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that… — 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
The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did… — 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
