Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. Haruki Murakami sea wind thinking Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding? Haruki Murakami bleeding shots gun People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. Haruki Murakami tired boring people But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now. Haruki Murakami happened accepting persons Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. Haruki Murakami thumbs never-trust men When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without. Haruki Murakami i-can running Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent. Haruki Murakami snakes spring two 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. Haruki Murakami warmth arms needed Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most Haruki Murakami scare house mean He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb. Haruki Murakami departed depth mind Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain. Haruki Murakami mountain eye faces You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing. Haruki Murakami eye sight order It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality. Haruki Murakami everyday ordinary reality It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. Haruki Murakami triumph impossible justice It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive. Haruki Murakami alive kind taste All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. Haruki Murakami norwegian-wood imperfect-world imperfection Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet. Haruki Murakami twenties heart years Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years. Haruki Murakami girl heart believe I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms. Haruki Murakami rain night fall Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works. Haruki Murakami screw-ups wall genius
