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Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood
Haruki MurakamiOriginal title ノルウェイの森 (Japanese, 1987)

Norwegian Wood is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

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“What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

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“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

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“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”

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“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”

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“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”

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“sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”

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“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”

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“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

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“When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.”

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“My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.”

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“As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”

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“How much do you love me?' Midori asked.

'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.”

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“The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.”

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“I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.”

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“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”

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“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”

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“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”

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