2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I'd swallow some whiskey and listen to the waves while I thought about Naoko. It was too strange to think that she was dead and no longer part of this world. I couldn't absorb the truth of it. I couldn't believe it. I had heard the nails being driven into the lid of her coffin, but I still couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.

I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.

In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply.

Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know.

You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.

There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.

I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.

No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here.

I miss you something awful sometimes