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Back Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
- Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the…
- On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child,…
- Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of…
- Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their…
- Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw…
- No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's…
- Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always…
- The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first…
- I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep,…
- Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at…
- I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
- Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
- Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room…
- Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a…
- Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what…
- I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than…
- The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go…
- Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or…
- I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong…
- And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the…
- What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
- I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when…
- Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I…
- I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a…
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