Intan Elya

“Writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness."

-from "Hear the Wind Sing”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“Why do you read books?” he asked. “Why do you drink beer?” I replied without glancing in his direction,”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Flawed