Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore

Quotes

• “The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but fro...”
• “When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of ...”
• “Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go...”
• “Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful ...”
• “That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortun...”
• “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. A...”
• “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get ba...”
• “Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest ...”
• “When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as t...”
• “You know what I should do?"Hoshino asked excited. "Of course,"the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. No...”
• “If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”
• “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
• “Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up!”
• “Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”
• “People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”
• “Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
• “It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
• “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
• “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
• “It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”
• “I don’t know what it means to live.”