“ The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. Haruki Murakami
“ You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person. Haruki Murakami
“ 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. Haruki Murakami
“ I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view. Haruki Murakami
“ 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… Haruki Murakami
“ I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. Haruki Murakami
“ 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… Haruki Murakami
“ 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… Haruki Murakami
“ The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter Haruki Murakami
“ 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… Haruki Murakami
“ 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… Haruki Murakami
“ 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… Haruki Murakami
“ You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a differen… Haruki Murakami
“ I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e second oor contains private chambers, bedrooms wher… Haruki Murakami
“ Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just getting under way. No homework to do, just a Sunday when you could do what you wanted. She always gave m… Haruki Murakami
“ Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. Haruki Murakami
“ Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is a gigantic metropolis waking up. Commuter trains of many colors move in all directions, transportin… Haruki Murakami
