Lee

“Maybe I've lost sight of me. I don't have a sense that I'm living this life as myself, as the real me. Sometimes I think I'm merely a shadow. When I feel that way, I get this restless feeling, like I'm simply tracing an outline of myself, cleverly pretending to be me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“Once you’ve tasted pure, unadulterated love, it’s like a part of your heart’s been irradiated, burned out, in a sense. Particularly when that love, for whatever reason, is suddenly severed. For the person involved, that sort of love is both the supreme happiness and a curse.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“At that time neither you nor I had names. The radiant feelings of a seventeen-year-old and a sixteen-year-old on the grass of a riverbank, in the summer twilight, were the only things that mattered. Stars would soon be twinkling above us, and they had no names either. The two of us sat there, side by side, on the riverbank of a nameless world.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“From my own experience, I’d say the important things in life usually happen unexpectedly.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls