Larissa Kuznetsova

“I believe that love is the indispensable fuel for us to go on living. Someday that love may end. Or it may never amount to anything. But even if love fades away, even if it’s unrequited, you can still hold on to the memory of having loved someone, of having fallen in love with someone. And that’s a valuable source of warmth.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Shinagawa Monkey

“No matter how vivid memories may be, they can’t win out against the power of time.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories