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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #2
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
    Murakami, Haruki

  • #5
    Haruki Murakami
    “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #6
    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #7
    Haruki Murakami
    “Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
    It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
    Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “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

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
    Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. ”
    Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

  • #14
    Haruki Murakami
    “Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
    Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #16
    Haruki Murakami
    “Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #17
    Haruki Murakami
    “I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
    Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • #19
    Ian McEwan
    “Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #20
    Ian McEwan
    “Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: love

  • #21
    Ian McEwan
    “How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #22
    Ian McEwan
    “In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #23
    Ian McEwan
    “But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement
    tags: love

  • #24
    Ian McEwan
    “From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #25
    Ian McEwan
    “come back, come back to me”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Ayn Rand
    “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #30
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    “I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
    Benedict Cumberbatch



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