book starters [15]
( HARUKI MURAKAMI ) ( NORWEGIAN WOOD )
“What happens when people open their hearts?”
“Nobody likes being alone that much.”
“I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.”
“Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
“You need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much.”
“I want you always to remember me.”
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt.”
“What stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
“All I want in this world is you.”
“I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one.”
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”
“I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
“Stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they’re supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.”
“When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. “
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
“Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven’t answered me.”
“People are strange when you’re a stranger.”
“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”
“You don’t get it, do you?”
“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realise.”
“At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.”
“All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”
“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die.”
“So I’m not crazy after all!”
“I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.”
“Will you wait for me forever?”
“I don’t want our relationship to end like this.”
“When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.”
“It hurts not being able to see you.”
“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad.”
“The world is an inherently unfair place.”
“Life frightens me sometimes. I don’t happen to take that as the premise for everything else though.”
“I’m a real bargain, don’t you think? If you don’t take me, I’ll end up going somewhere else.”
“We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”
“Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?”
“You’re not telling me anything I don’t know already.”
