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“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“With luck, it might even snow for us.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter

“If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays i didn't wind my spring.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Will you wait for me forever?”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood