Quotes from book
Coin Locker Babies

Name: Coin Locker Babies
Author: Ryū Murakami

Ryū MurakamiOriginal title コインロッカー・ベイビーズ (Japanese, 1980)

Coin Locker Babies , 1980, is a novel by Ryū Murakami about coin-operated-locker babies, translated into English by Stephen Snyder. The translation was published in 1995 by Kodansha International Ltd and republished in 2013 by Pushkin Press. A Bildungsroman novel, Coin Locker Babies is known for transcending genres, containing elements of social commentary, surrealism, dark comedy, philosophy, noir and horror.

“They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.”

Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies

“The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.”

Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”

Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies (1980)

“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back.”

Ryū Murakami book Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies