Philip Elwell

“It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories

“Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories

“The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor - they never overlap, do they?

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?

Losing weight and looking like the poor.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“I wonder what either of us knows about love. Our love has never been tested.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories