#haruki murakami books

[literaturecravings]

—Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

[quotespile]

If you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[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

[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

[reverie-quotes]

But a person's destiny is something you look back at after it's past, not something you see in advance.

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[figcatlists]

Contemporary weird fiction reading list

A chart of New Weird books and other bizarre, unsettling, and uncanny literature published in the last 30 years or so. This is a follow-up to my previous chart of classic weird fiction and another selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature.

[not-the-aesthete]

“ 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

[joytri]

There are some things about myself I can't explain to anyone. There are some things I don't understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I'm after. I don't know what my strengths are or what I'm supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self- centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I'm not such a wonderful human being.

Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

[gavas-world]

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami

[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

[quotespile]

We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.

Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[thebookquotes]

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

[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

[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

[deadpoetsloverr]

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore.