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But what I think is, no matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” “That’s true,” Miss Saeki said. “It hurt more and more to hold on to them, but I never wanted to let them go, as long as I was alive. It was the only reason I had to go on living, the only thing that proved I was alive.” Nakata.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

It’s not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that’s not read friendship.

What do you think? I’m not a starfish or a pepper tree. I’m a living, breathing human being. Of course I’ve been in love.

The journey I’m taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven’t you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?

I want to believe you, but if that’s true, I just don’t get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that’s the way it goes, what’s the point of loving someone?

So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.” Takatsuki.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.

Like fish that live at the bottom of the ocean, most of her dreams weren’t able to float to the surface.

That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything’s dark and you can’t see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know- lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space. With no idea where I’m headed.

There were two moons in the sky – a small moon and a large one. They were floating there side by side. The large one was the usual moon that she had always seen. It was nearly full, and yellow. But there was another moon right next to it. It had an unfamiliar shape. It was somewhat lopsided, and greenish, as though thinly covered with moss.

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I’m sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

I’m kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn’t suit me. I’m more of a side dish – cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a “Reserved” sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I’d never see her again.

It’s just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

Real Quotes

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man’s life is a long farewell.

Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

Do you think you weren’t loved enough?” She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod. “Somewhere between ‘not enough’ and ‘not at all.’ 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. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once.

She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

If I choose to write about sheep, it’s just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

When I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Stories Quotes

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren’t they?

Accurate knowledge does not improve people’s lives. The objective does not necessarily surpass the subjective, you know. Reality does not necessarily extinguish fantasy... There are channels through which reality can become unreal, or unreality can enter the realm of the real. If we desire it that strongly. Deep in our heart. But that didn’t mean we were free. It might demonstrate quite the opposite.

I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I am much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That’s just the kind of person I am. I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox.

It is the same with anything – you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can’t learn it from a book.

Book Quotes

Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy, that’s why. They’re nice and creamy. And sort of grainy at the same time.

What I’d like to be is a unique writer who’s different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers’.

Stories Quotes

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words – something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

I have to somehow get connected to reality again, he thought, or else I won’t be me anymore. I’ll become a man who doesn’t exist.

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there’s no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Book Quotes

It’s not me but the world that’s deranged.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

Book Quotes Reading Quotes

You have to patiently learn to live together with your shadow. And carefully observe the darkness that resides within you. Sometimes in a dark tunnel you have to confront your own dark side.

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

Book Quotes

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Real Quotes

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life – and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.

I wasn’t particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don’t have to die the next.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

Stories Quotes

A deserted library in the morning – there’s something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared.

That’s how stories happen – with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Stories Quotes