Mikado

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“but I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle