Quotes from book

Norwegian Wood

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”

“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”

“Will you wait for me forever?”

“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”

“I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.”

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”

“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

“Life is like a box of cookies.”

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.”

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”