Nivedita

“She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed.
The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with the terrain.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“It isn't ever delicate to live.”
― Kay Ryan