Quotes from book1Q84
1Q84 is a dystopian novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–10. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly enraptured in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real". Its first printing sold out on the day it was released and sales reached a million within a month. The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011. An excerpt from the novel, "Town of Cats", appeared in the September 5, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The first chapter of 1Q84 had also been read as an excerpt in the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space in New York.
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84
“That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Variant: This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
Source: 1Q84
“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Variant: Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Source: 1Q84
