“I'm going to take you out of here… I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.”

— Haruki Murakami, book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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