2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi," Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter.

To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.

It's a funny thing sensing someone else's sex drive. After a while, you get to mistaking it for your own.

Even if your group of five was a harmonious, perfect community, there are always things that only girls can discuss between themselves.

Girls have periods and boys wank. Everybody.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.

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.