“Probably."
"Again with the probablys."
"A world full of probablys," she said.”
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.”
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Variant: I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1
“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
Source: After Dark
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)
Context: I watched an old American submarine movie on television. The creaking plot had the captain and first officer constantly at each other’s throat. The submarine was a fossil, and one guy had claustrophobia. But all that didn’t stop everything from working out well in the end. It was an everything-works-out-in-the-end-so-maybe-war’s-not-so-bad-after-all sort of film. One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Variant: People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage