The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Quotes from book
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.
“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
