“ 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
