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“In situations of extreme challenge, certain rare individuals, who can expect everything and fear everything from each other, will always recognize each other.”

“I persist in demanding the names, in being interested only in books left swinging like doors, for which you don’t need to find the key.”

Crying at the final chapter of part two!! Wow wow wow

“Was I used to waiting, or was it that I just wasn’t given an alternative?”

“That’s what I needed - the right amount of time passing.”

“Who was it who said loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance?”

I could stay up all night reading this!! But rats, it’s already midnight!!

This book is very touching as both a) a certified yearner who never gets over anything and b) someone who has lost a friend and a lover suddenly and without explanation, leaving me wracked with questions of what happened. Yep. Thanks Murakami.

“When something is perfect, where are you supposed to head to then? This might be one of the issues with eternity- not knowing where you should go next. But how much value was there in a love that didn’t seek the eternal?”

“You explained these things to me in bits and pieces. Like finding a ragged item in an old coat pocket.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” Omg this book!!

“It is perfectly monstrous…the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true”

“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

This book is excellent!