#haruki murakami

[perfectquote]

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

[petaltexturedskies]

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[quotespile]

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[389]

If I left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (p. 86)

[stay-close]

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.

Haruki Murakami

[perfeqt]

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

[metamorphesque]

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]

[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

[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

[sicknessinmotion]

I MISS A LOVE I NEVER HAD; ON LONGING

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[petaltexturedskies]

Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little world of hers.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[thebookquotes]

I close my eyes, but I can't fall asleep, my body dying for rest while my mind's wide awake.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[asoftepiloguemylove]

to be loved is to be changed

Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun // Robert Bly In the Month of May // Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // art: unknown quote: Fyodor Dostoeyevsky The Brothers Karamazov // @x2s (via @llovelymoonn) // Bianca Sparacino // Noah Kahan You're Gonna Go Far // Katja Kemnitz Too Much Love // Charlotte Eriksson Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself

[lux-noxaurea11]

- Haruki Murakami

[lets-get-lit]

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood