Quotes from Haruki Murakami

I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

Dentro de mi, alguien, algo, se irá. Con la mirada baja, sin una palabra.

That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth—firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

I don't want to forget the last time you touched me.

I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.

If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else

I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

the mind is lost when the shadow dies.

I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image. - Toru

Aomame said, It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

Nuestra existencia es una sucesión de instantes aprisionados entre el <> que queda a nuestra espalda y la <> que tenemos delante.

Lumea nu este decat o lupta nesfarsita intre amintirile unor tabere opuse.

I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something.

The blood must have already, in its own silent way, seeped inside.

He could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquillity. That was the best thing the moon could give a person.

Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of mysterious question marks seems like a minor sin.

Are you prepared to die?" "I am half dead already," Nimit said as if stating the obvious.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read.

But Aomame could never smile easily, or casually, in front of people. When she forced it, she ended up with a tight sneer, which made others even more tense and uncomfortable. Tamaki was different: she had a natural, cheerful smile. People meeting her for the first time immediately felt friendly toward her. In the end, though, disappointment and despair drove Tamaki to take her own life, leaving Aomame – who couldn't manage a decent smile – behind.

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

A smile like a small wisp of smoke drifting quietly skyward on a windless day.

Cuando uno está rodeado de tinieblas, la única alternativa es permanecer inmóvil hasta que tus ojos se acostumbren a la oscuridad