Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Quotes

• “Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, ...”
• “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest eno...”
• “From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to co...”
• “When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”
• “Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.”
• “Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.”