Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.
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And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.
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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
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There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.
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Is it against the law for me to know it?
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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
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Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
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It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.