#Haruki Murakami

[thoughtkick]

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

[perfectquote]

The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[sageandscorpiongrass]

You're never going to be back home again.

I’ll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson | Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami | White Oleander, Janet Fitch | Homesick, Noah Kahan | Sick, Jody Chan | Chrystal Light, Erin Hanson | First Dog in Space, Brennig Davies | It's Not A Game/It's Just A Ride, Ride The Cyclone | Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin | “La Cueva”, Lessons on Expulsion, Erika L. Sánchez | Fiery grass against a blue sky, Casey Lee | That's Enough, Let's Get You Home, Will Wood | Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton | Faithful and Virtuous night, Louise Glück | Ask Polly: Help, I'm the Loneliest Person in the World!, Heather Havrilesky | Hammerhead, Penelope Scott

[perfeqt]

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[surqrised]

I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[thegirlthatcriesacademia]

I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person's attitude so that they wouldn't get any closer. I didn't easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

[ethereal-muses]

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

– Gustave Flaubert

[fairydrowning]

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

– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets."

– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[mothprincess]

Haruki Murakami, from Sputnik Sweetheart

[quotefeeling]

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.

Haruki Murakami

[thoughtkick]

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[sunsetquotes]

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Haruki Murakami; Kafka on the Shore

[quotemadness]

You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.

Haruki Murakami

[maddieisnotreal]

norwegian wood by haruki murakami // cherry - harry styles // right where you left me - taylor swift // grief lessons: four plays by euripides, translated by anne carson // on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean Vuong // art by holly warburton // slipping through my fingers - abba // new year’s day - taylor swift // white oleander by janet fitch

[metamorphesque]

loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you

Haruki Murakami, Sergey Tutunov, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Pirenne, Yvan Favre, George Pratt, Marie Muravski, Aaron Wiesenfeld

buy me a coffee

[ethereal-muses]

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

– Bram Stoker, Dracula