

“So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood

“I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I suppose it's part of growing up, yet it's also an attempt to re-invent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I'm still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I'll come to defining myself.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
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