“In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment”
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 25, Transit Completed at Movie Theater, On to The Dolphin Hotel
Context: "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment," she said, thrusting a skinny back of her hand before my eyes, "most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 30, Colonel Sanders
Context: Listen- God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like-they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American chomping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o - God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. 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.
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart