Ishan Negi

“I wasn’t particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don’t have to die the next. All quite simple, if you want to look at it that way. Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with. Hence I can live with it. But after I’m dead, can’t I just lie in peace? Those Egyptian pharoahs had a point, wanting to shut themselves up inside pyramids. Several”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“What do you think the most gruelin’ thing about evolution is?” “I don’t know. Tell me,” I said. “It’s being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It’s like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what’s happening until they hit, then it’s too late.” I”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Even if I had my life to live over again, I couldn’t imagine not doing things the same. After all, everything—this life I was losing—was me. And I couldn’t be any other self but my self. Could I? Once,”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World