“ From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. Haruki Murakami
“ The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. Haruki Murakami
“ I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view. 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
