Haruki Murakami Quotes

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

Haruki Murakami

• Ideas
• Girls
• Depressing
• Realistic

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• You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Ideas
  • Girls
  • Depressing