Robert

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

“Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?"

"It's a distance that can't be measured."

"Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon