"If y'all only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"What happens when people open up their hearts?"
"They get better."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my manner to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. "
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Don't experience sorry for yourself. But assholes do that."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"But who can say what's best? That's why yous need to catch whatsoever chance you take of happiness where you notice it, and not worry nigh other people likewise much. My experience tells me that nosotros get no more than two or three such chances in a life fourth dimension, and if nosotros let them go, nosotros regret it for the remainder of our lives."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I want you lot ever to remember me. Will yous recall that I existed, and that I stood adjacent to you hither similar this?"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"I was always hungry for love. Simply once, I wanted to know what it was similar to become my fill of information technology -- to be fed so much dearest I couldn't take any more than. Just once. "
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be injure."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Letters are but pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; continue them, and what vanishes volition vanish."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I have a one thousand thousand things to talk to you lot almost. All I want in this globe is you. I want to see you lot and talk. I want the ii of us to begin everything from the showtime."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"No truth can cure the sorrow we experience from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we tin can practise is meet it through to the end and learn something from it, simply what we learn will be no help in facing the side by side sorrow that comes to us without warning."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to practise it then unconsciously."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"But the Dead stay seventeen forever."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"I actually like you, Midori. A lot."
"How much is a lot?"
"Like a spring bear," I said.
"A bound bear?" Midori looked upwards again. "What's that all virtually? A spring bear."
"You're walking through a field all by yourself ane twenty-four hours in spring, and this sweet picayune bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little optics comes walking forth. And he says to you lot, "Hi, there, piffling lady. Want to tumble with me?' And so you and the bear cub spend the whole solar day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?"
"Yes. Really nice."
"That's how much I like you lot."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"If y'all're in pitch black, all you tin can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"I don't intendance what you do to me, but I don't desire you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than than enough. At present I want to exist happy."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar volume and draw information technology'due south fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to brand me happy."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"People leave strange piddling memories of themselves behind when they die."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"So what's wrong if there happens to be i guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it whatever mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such item. I didn't give a damn near the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking most the beautiful daughter walking next to me. I was thinking most the 2 of the states together, then about myself over again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came dorsum, similar a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my heed."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Not that we were incompatible: nosotros just had nothing to talk about."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"She'southward letting out her feelings. The scary affair is not existence able to practise that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, and then you're in large trouble."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in elementary school at the time - 5th or sixth form - but I made upwards my mind once and for all."
"Wow," I said. "Did the search pay off?"
"That's the hard part," said Midori. She watched the ascension smoke for a while, thinking. "I judge I've been waiting and so long I'chiliad looking for perfection. That makes information technology tough."
"Waiting for the perfect honey?"
"No, even I know ameliorate than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Similar, say I tell yous I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything y'all're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come up dorsum out of breath and get downwards on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want information technology anymore and throw information technology out the window. That's what I'm looking for."
"I'm non sure that has annihilation to practice with dear," I said with some anaesthesia.
"It does," she said. "You just don't know it. There are fourth dimension in a daughter's life when things like that are incredibly important."
"Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?"
"Exactly. And when I do it, I desire the man to apologize to me. "Now I see, Midori. What a fool I have been! I should have known that y'all would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. I accept all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it upwards to you lot, I'll become out and purchase y'all something else. What would you like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?"
"So then what?"
"So then I'd give him all the love he deserves for what he's washed."
"Sounds crazy to me."
"Well, to me, that's what honey is…"
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Something within me had dropped abroad, and nothing came in to fill the cavern."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"It's because of you when I'1000 in bed in the morning that I can current of air my jump and tell myself I accept to alive another good 24-hour interval."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"So I fabricated up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and threescore-five days a year.
Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off?
M: That's the hard part. I judge I've been waiting and so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Which is why I am writing this book. To retrieve. To empathize. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things downward to feel I fully comprehend them."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"This is one more piece of advice I accept for you lot: don't get impatient. Fifty-fifty if things are so tangled upward you tin can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and outset yanking on i particular thread before information technology'south prepare to come up undone. You accept to realize it's going to exist a
long procedure and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Things like that happen all the fourth dimension in this great large world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. And then end eating yourself upwards alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course."
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
Norwegian Forest by Haruki Murakami