2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: “What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!” She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that’s why I’m writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It's got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone's got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger each year.

I always feel like I'm in someone else's body with someone else's soul stuffed inside

The skin of my soul was no longer tender.

Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?”“Nothing is written in your eyes". I replied."It is written in my eyes and i see the reflection in yours

What confused and disappointed me, though, was that I could never discover within her something special that existed just for me. A list of her good qualities far outstripped a list of her faults, and certainly far outshone my own, yet there was something missing, something absolutely vital.

Eh Kizuki, diye düşündüm. Ben senin tersine, yaşamaya karar verdim, hem de bildiğim en iyi şekilde. Bu, senin için hiç kuşkusuz çok zor olmuştu. Canı cehenneme, benim için de çok zor. Gerçekten zor. Ve tüm bunlar, kendini öldürüp Naoko’yu geride bıraktığın için. Ama bunu yapmayacağım. Ondan hiçbir zaman yüz çevirmeyeceğim. Her şeyden önce, onu sevdiğim ve ondan daha güçlü olduğum için. Ve gittikçe daha güçlü olacağım. Ben olgunlaşacağım. Bir yetişkin olacağım. Çünkü yapmam gereken şey bu.

I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.