#Haruki murakami

[stay-close]

Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

[thehopefulquotes]

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami

[quotefeeling]

I’d be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[dk-thrive]

No, I said silently to myself, there’s nothing in this world that’s perfect. If it has shape and form, it’s got to have a weak point, a blind spot.

— Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls. (Trans. Philip Gabriel) (Knopf, November 19, 2024)

[resqectable]

Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

[strokeofserenity]

Haruki Murakami, “Sputnik Sweetheart”

[metamorphesque]

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]

[quotemadness]

You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.

Haruki Murakami

[stay-close]

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[quotespile]

If you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[quotefeeling]

I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

Haruki Murakami

[perfectquote]

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

[asoftepiloguemylove]

to be loved is to be changed

Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun // Robert Bly In the Month of May // Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // art: unknown quote: Fyodor Dostoeyevsky The Brothers Karamazov // @x2s (via @llovelymoonn) // Bianca Sparacino // Noah Kahan You're Gonna Go Far // Katja Kemnitz Too Much Love // Charlotte Eriksson Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself

[dk-thrive]

Or, perhaps…in this world every possibility is quietly awaiting a person.

— Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls. (Trans. Philip Gabriel) (Knopf, November 19, 2024)

[sicknessinmotion]

I MISS A LOVE I NEVER HAD; ON LONGING

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[thebookquotes]

I close my eyes, but I can't fall asleep, my body dying for rest while my mind's wide awake.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore