Tell me something, Toru, She said. Do you love me?You know I do.Will you do me two favors?You can have up to three wishes, Madame.Naoko smiled and shook her head. No, two will do. One is for you to re...
Sometimes, I imagine how great it would be if we could live our lives without bothering other people.
Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. Youchange direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.
Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I run, the point being to let the exhilaration I feel at the end of each run carry over to the next da...
Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.
She didn't answer. Instead, she smiled sweetly. It was a smile so radiant that the air seemed to thin around it.
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo...
Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better reme...
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most w...
Once you make up your mind to get rid of something, there’s very little you can’t discard. No – not very little. Once you put your mind to it, there’s nothing you can’t get rid of. And once you start...
Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can n...
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves
No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage i...