" Have you ever had that feeling - that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? "
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
" It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true. "
- Norwegian Wood (via hellanne)
" I don’t know how to put it, but I just can’t get it through my head that the here and now is really here and now. Or that I am really me. It doesn’t quite hit home. It’s always been this way. Only much later on does it ever come together. "
- Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via jaheira)
" Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion. "
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
" You can’t tell anything from photographs. They’re just a shadow. The real me is far away. That won’t show up in a picture. "
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
" Sometimes I feel as if I’m racing with my own shadow. But that’s one thing I’ll never be able to outrun. Nobody can shake off their own shadow. "
- After Dark
KYOTO—Haruki Murakami reiterated his love for Russian masterpieces and 19th-century literature as an influence on his work during a rare public speech and interview on May 6 at Kyoto University.
