Wind Up Bird Chronicle Quotes

“That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can’t follow them all the way to the end.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Strange as it may seem—or perhaps it does not seem so strange—they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up in was just a matter of where your foot happened to fall.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, and themore it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving.
- Toru”
― Haruki Murakami

“Truly a loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the flesh and brutal torture”
― Hariki Murakami