Eva Swift

“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said.
"It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”
― Haruki Murakami

“For a few seconds I stood there in a strange, dim place. Where the things I could see did not exist. Where the invisible did.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories

“The bottle and the cap don't fit: is the problem with the bottle or the cap?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can't turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84