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“If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Once I began a book, I couldn’t put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I’d keep the book hidden so I could read during class. But I had almost no desire to talk with anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“بإمكان المرء بمجرّد العيش أن يدمر إنسانًا آخر بشكل لا يمكن إصلاحه.”
― هاروكي موراكامي, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“You may put it that way if you like—but damn it all, it’s my life. I’ve a right to do what I like with it.” “That is a cliché,” said Mr. Satterthwaite wearily.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken

“If it's in the bin, it's public property.”
― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“Sometimes I feel as if I'm racing with my own shadow”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Is it against the law for me to know it?”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“Are you asking because you really want an answer?”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“I do my thing and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.”
― Fritz Perls

“I'm not so weird to me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“لم تكن عبارة " أوصى لي به كثيرون" معياراً جيداً, و خاصةلأنها كانت تحذر دائماً من عبارة أكثر الكتب مبيعاً التي " يوصي بقراءتها كثيرون".”
― إليف شافاق, The Bastard of Istanbul

“قد لا يعجبك المطر, وليس بالضرورة أن يعجبك”
― إليف شافاق, The Bastard of Istanbul

“فعندما لا تفضي لأحد بشيء استثنائي، فأنه سيعتبر أن كل شيء يسير علي ما يرام”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Where should we go?”

“I don’t care. Anywhere you want. 
Anywhere we don’t know people.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.”
― Mark Twain