2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

Une âme solitaire errant le long d’un rivage absurde battu par les flots. C’est peut-être la signification de ce nom : Kafka.

Have BOOKS "happened" to you? Unless your answer to that question is "yes", I'm unsure How to talk to you.

الكتابة بالنسبة لي عملية مؤلمة

Sumire was so bereft of household goods the place looked deserted. There weren't any curtains in the windows and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a gang of intellectual refugees.

The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put it simply”—he placed his hands on the desk and took one long, slow breath—”what I would like to do for a lovely young fairy such as you is to grant a wish you might have, to make your wish come true. Anything. Anything at all that you wish for—assuming that you do have such a wish.

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.