“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”
― Patron Saints of Nothing
― Patron Saints of Nothing
“It strikes me that I cannot claim this country’s serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me.”
― Patron Saints of Nothing
― Patron Saints of Nothing
“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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