Norwegian Wood Quotes

• What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Knowing, Normal, Said

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• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, People, World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

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• Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Fall, Missing

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Death, Kindness, Losing A Loved One

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 04, 2012

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• 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

  Love, Hungry, Feds

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• Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Death, Opposites

  "What I Talk about When I Talk about Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Feet, Relax

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• If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Philosophical, Care

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• If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Dark, Used

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

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• Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Romantic, Dream

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• Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Pieces, Paper

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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• 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

  Want, Next, Remember

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 07, 2012

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Silence

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.148, Random House

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• Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Time, Regret

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cute, Girl, Father

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Friendship, Lonely, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2015

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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• I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Home, Writing

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• So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Crazy, Mean

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• Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

  Haruki Murakami

  Caverns

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• All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Imperfect World, Imperfection, Humans

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• 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

  Love, Happiness, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 14, 2017

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• I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Disappointment, Loneliness

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.68, Random House

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