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“Loving someone is like having a mental illness that's not covered by health insurance.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“And now here I was, a first person singular. If I'd chosen a different direction, most likely I wouldn't be here. But still - who is that in the mirror?”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“Thing about death is that you don't grieve it for a set period of time, you keep grieving. Intensity wears off after a while but not the grief.”
― Shaheen Chishti, The Granddaughter Project

“You are allowed to make mistakes. And to be forgiven.”
― Rebecca Stead, The List of Things That Will Not Change

“...life is like a trip. A very long one. And what matters most is the people you travel with.”
― Rebecca Stead, The List of Things That Will Not Change

“The thing about making butter is that it feels like it'll never be done, almost right up to the moment when it is done. If what you want is butter, you have to keep going, even if you only half believe you'll get there.”
― Rebecca Stead, The List of Things That Will Not Change

“एक पशेमानी रहती है
उलझन और गिरानी भी....
आओ फिर से लड़ कर देखें
शायद इस से बेहतर कोई
और सबब मिल जाए हम को
फिर से अलग हो जाने का।”
― गुलज़ार, raat pashmine ki

“बड़ी हसरत है पूरा एक दिन इक बार मैं अपने लिये रख लूं,
तुम्हारे साथ पूरा एक दिन बस ख़र्च करने की तमन्ना है!!”
― गुलज़ार, raat pashmine ki

“There was only void, and how are you supposed to give form to something that doesn't exist?”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“If this was a dream, then the world I'm living in itself must all be a dream.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“The world wants our uterus to be drug-free. Like sacred grounds in a virgin forest.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional?”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“Don't stay out of trouble. Run wild!”
― Cho Nam-Joo, 82년생 김지영

“The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn't actually changed at all.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, 82년생 김지영

“Do laws and institutions change values, or do values drive laws and institutions?”
― Cho Nam-Joo, 82년생 김지영

“I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Our lives really do seem strange and mysterious when you look back on them. Filled with unbelievable bizarre coincidences and unpredictable, zigzagging developments.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“But you can find out just about anything from the internet these days. For people who know their way around it, privacy is a thing of the past.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Leave it alone, and it would disappear somewhere. No matter how vivid a memory, the power of time was stronger.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“...what hurt me was actually me, myself. In the midst of that continuing, unsettled silence my feelings, like a heavy pendulum, a razor-sharp blade, made wide swings between one extreme to the other. That arc of emotions left fresh wounds in my skin.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“But the visible is not the only reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“One person leaves, another appears. A thought flits away and another takes its place. One image bids farewell and another one appears on the scene.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Memories don't just pile up - they also change over time. And sometimes they fade of their own accord.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor or pain, some bit of joy, a tear.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“I have to make do with a hollow heart full of holes.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police