Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Quotes

• “This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anyt...”
• “In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn...”
• “But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and no...”
• “No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure ...”
• “I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the tw...”
• “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much lov...”
• “Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can som...”
• “With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me hap...”
• “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointmen...”
• “Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”
• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
• “It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
• “Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
• “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
• “What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.”
• “Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
• “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
• “I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”