Dreams were for people with money and time, people who didn’t feel hollowed out from watching the only person who loved them die in agony. Dreams were for people who had choices, opportunities. I didn’t believe I had any of those things.
“Though brother and sister, Noboru Wataya and Kumiko were separated in age by nine years.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Somebody told me gays are lousy whistlers. Is that true?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I could no longer endure the many kinds of pain that my life continued to cause me. I had endured the pain for twenty years. My life had been nothing but an unremitting source of pain.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Where there’s guts there’s curiosity, and where there’s curiosity there’s guts. No?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I mean, we think about just about everything, more or less—philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such thing as death, that complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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