Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.
I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to...
Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the p...
Here's what hurst the most, Kafuku said. I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying...
Writing a novel is like having a dream.
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks...
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like m...
When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every...