Quotes from book
Hear the Wind Sing
Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It first appeared in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo , and in book form the next month. The novel was adapted by Japanese director Kazuki Ōmori in a 1981 film distributed by Art Theatre Guild. An English translation by Alfred Birnbaum appeared in 1987.

“Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.”
Variant: All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.
Source: Hear the Wind Sing

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
Source: Hear the Wind Sing