Self Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Self
“That was the dangerous thing about dreams-how quicly you became tangled in it all. People naturally let their guard down when they slept.” — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
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“I fell asleep that night in the arms of a killer. I'd never slept better.” — T.M. Frazier Copy Share Image
“I could’ve let down my guard a bit and not been quite so confrontational, but it had felt good sparring with him like that.… — C.J. Anaya Copy Share Image
“When I tell you to take guards, fucking take guards. These bastards owe me their fucking loyalty for a reason and if I tell… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“The little kid in me roared. He wanted me to know he was right. I could trust no one. Everyone wanted to hurt us.… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“The low voice, smooth and full of menace, woke me from sleep that night. My body tightened like a longbow and I tried to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“This was pretty much when the Guards behind me decided they were going to try to make me do this. And that is when… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“With a terrified yelp, the guard turned tail and ran the other way.” — Gordon Korman 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
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image