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“It’s a juvenile display, the whole act, and pathetic; but it’s something I understand.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“My words flew like birds into a pane of glass.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“If I relaxed for a second, I’d never find my way back. I’d go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards, too.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“More than once I tried stretching my hand out in the dark. My fingers touched nothing. The faint glow remained, just beyond my grasp.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better..”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I am a flawed human being-”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When you start at zero, you've got a lot to learn.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you hurt her any more than you already have, the would could be too deep to fix.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“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, Norwegian Wood

“It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.” “You’re the weirdest guy I’ve ever met,” I said.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I’m made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I read a lot, but not a lot of different books: I like to read my favorites again and again.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Letters are just pieces of paper,” I said. “Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I wrung the fatigue from every cell of my body, drop by drop.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You’re all grown up now, so you have to take responsibility for your choices. Otherwise, you ruin everything.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Well, any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“and as long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood