"If you lot only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can merely think what anybody else is thinking."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They become better."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"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. "
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Don't feel pitiful for yourself. Merely assholes do that."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"But who can say what's all-time? That's why you demand to take hold of any adventure you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry virtually other people too much. My experience tells me that nosotros get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if nosotros allow them become, we regret information technology for the rest of our lives."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I want you e'er to remember me. Will you lot remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"I was always hungry for beloved. Only once, I wanted to know what it was similar to go my fill of information technology -- to be fed so much beloved I couldn't take whatsoever more. Simply in one case. "
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Despite your all-time efforts, people are going to be hurt when it'southward time for them to be hurt."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"I have a million things to talk to y'all almost. All I desire in this world is you. I want to meet you and talk. I desire the two of united states of america to begin everything from the beginning."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Letters are only pieces of newspaper," I said. "Burn down them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"No truth can cure the sorrow we experience from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness tin cure that sorrow. All nosotros can do is see it through to the finish and learn something from it, but what we acquire will be no assistance in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"What a terrible matter information technology is to wound someone you really intendance for and to do information technology and so unconsciously."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Only the Dead stay seventeen forever."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I really similar yous, Midori. A lot."
"How much is a lot?"
"Similar a spring bear," I said.
"A spring comport?" Midori looked upwards again. "What's that all about? A spring conduct."
"You lot're walking through a field all by yourself i day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny fiddling optics comes walking along. And he says to you, "Hi, there, fiddling lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear cub spend the whole twenty-four hours in each other'southward arms, tumbling downwardly this clover-covered colina. Nice, huh?"
"Yeah. Actually nice."
"That's how much I like you."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"If you're in pitch blackness, all you can practise is sit tight until your eyes get used to the night"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"What makes us the well-nigh normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that nosotros're not normal."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I don't care what you do to me, but I don't desire yous to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More plenty. Now I want to be happy."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"I didn't take much to say to everyone just kept to myself and my books. With my eyes airtight, I would bear upon a familiar volume and draw it'due south fragrance deep inside me. This was plenty to make me happy."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"People leave foreign footling memories of themselves backside when they die."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"And so what's incorrect if in that location happens to be 1 guy in the earth who enjoys trying to understand you?"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Retentiveness is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to call up of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later on I would retrieve it in such detail. I didn't requite a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking nigh the beautiful daughter walking next to me. I was thinking about the 2 of us together, and so virtually myself again. Information technology was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every idea came dorsum, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in dear. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Non that nosotros were incompatible: nosotros just had nothing to talk about."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"She'southward letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die within, then yous're in large trouble."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I made upwardly my mind I was going to discover someone who would beloved me unconditionally iii hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in uncomplicated school at the fourth dimension - 5th or sixth form - but I made up my mind once and for all."
"Wow," I said. "Did the search pay off?"
"That's the hard part," said Midori. She watched the rising smoke for a while, thinking. "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
"Waiting for the perfect honey?"
"No, fifty-fifty I know better than that. I'grand looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I desire to consume strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And yous come back out of breath and become downwardly on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That'due south what I'm looking for."
"I'one thousand not sure that has anything to practice with love," I said with some amazement.
"It does," she said. "You just don't know it. There are time in a girl'southward life when things like that are incredibly important."
"Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?"
"Exactly. And when I do it, I want the human being to repent to me. "Now I see, Midori. What a fool I have been! I should accept known that you would lose your want for strawberry shortcake. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a slice of ass shit. To brand it upward to you, I'll exit and buy yous something else. What would y'all like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?"
"Then and so what?"
"And so then I'd requite him all the love he deserves for what he'southward done."
"Sounds crazy to me."
"Well, to me, that's what love is…"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"Something inside me had dropped abroad, and nix came in to make full the cave."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Then I made upward my mind I was going to detect someone who would dear me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off?
M: That'due south the hard role. I guess I've been waiting so long I'thou looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"It's because of y'all when I'm in bed in the morning time that I can air current my spring and tell myself I accept to live another practiced twenty-four hour period."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. Information technology just happens to be the mode I'm made. I have to write things down to experience I fully comprehend them."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"This is one more piece of advice I accept for y'all: don't get impatient. Even if things are and then tangled upwards y'all can't do anything, don't get desperate or accident a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it'south ready to come undone. You have to realize it'due south going to be a
long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Things like that happen all the time in this bang-up big world of ours. It'due south like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful 24-hour interval and thinking both the sky and the lake are cute. So terminate eating yourself upward alive. Things will get where they're supposed to go if you merely permit them take their natural course."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Woods by Haruki Murakami
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