“I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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