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.
“far removed from reality, the memory came back to life with searing vividness. I could feel the heat of it against my skin, hear it sizzling my flesh.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“a person’s destiny is something you look back at afterward, not something to be known in advance.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“You know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, I sometimes wonder what it must feel like to die little by little over a long period of time. What do you think?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“the sister would be there, holding her. She did everything she could to find a way into Kumiko’s heart. Had she not died”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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