Robin Small

“As I gazed at my reflection I wondered, Where am I headed? Before that, though, the question was Where have I come to? Where is this place? No, before that even I needed to ask, Who the hell am I?”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“The world is full of lonely things, but not many could be lonelier than waking up alone in the morning in a love hotel.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“She began to cry. “Cry quicker, or the call’ll get too expensive.”
― Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare: A Novel

“That sometimes in life we can’t grasp the boundary between reality and unreality. Than boundary always seems to be shifting. As if the border between countries shifts from one day to the next depending on their mood. We need to pay close attention to that movement otherwise we won’t know which side we’re on.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore