April 2011
29 posts
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“Why did a person’s life have to change so completely?”
– Sleep (The Elephant Vanishes)
Apr 30th
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“I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart (via dead-disco)
Apr 28th
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“We held hands just once. Our hands were clasped together ten seconds at most,...”
– Haruki Murakami (via ecs-ta-sy)
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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“She was probably too cool, too self-possessed. But I detected something...”
– south of the border, west of the sun (via aliceintokyo)
Apr 27th
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“I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Apr 20th
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“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am,...”
– Kafka on the Shore
Apr 20th
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“I didn’t have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my...”
– Norwegian Wood (via quievi)
Apr 20th
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“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Apr 20th
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“You’ve got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you’ve got to...”
– Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Apr 19th
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“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching...”
– Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Apr 19th
56 notes
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“Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart.”
– On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning (The Elephant Vanishes)
Apr 19th
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futurecorpses: Just after I hit twenty, this thought hit me: Maybe I’ve lost the chance to ever be a decent human being. The mistakes I’d committed-maybe they were part of my very makeup, an inescapable part of my being. I’d hit rock bottom, and I knew it. - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Apr 18th
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“In the world we live in, what we know and what we don’t know are like...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart
Apr 17th
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“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal...”
– After Dark
Apr 16th
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“When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have...”
– Kafka on the Shore
Apr 16th
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“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking...”
– Kafka on the Shore
Apr 16th
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“The sad truth is that certain types of things can’t go backward. Once they...”
– South of the Border, West of the Sun
Apr 14th
56 notes
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“I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
– Norwegian Wood (via bearbearpdx)
Apr 14th
271 notes
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“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
– A Wild Sheep Chase
Apr 13th
61 notes
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“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where...”
– Pinball 1973
Apr 12th
28 notes
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“I could go on like this forever, but would I ever find a place that was meant...”
– Pinball 1973
Apr 12th
25 notes
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“You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different...”
– Dance Dance Dance
Apr 12th
18 notes
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“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night so scared…I’m scared I’ll never...”
– Haruki Murakami (via bookmania)
Apr 11th
445 notes
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“Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn’t get enough of it....”
– Pinball 1973 (via relicanth)
Apr 7th
73 notes
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“The details of stolen moments past and present threaten to undo him completely.”
– South of the Border, West of the Sun (via 55thand3rd)
Apr 5th
50 notes
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“I didn’t have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With...”
– Norwegian Wood
Apr 2nd
74 notes
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“Even chance meetings are the result of karma. Things in life are fated by our...”
– Kafka on the Shore
Apr 2nd
71 notes
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“A deserted library in the morning - there’s something about it that really gets...”
– Kafka on the Shore (via recycledsoul)
Apr 1st
124 notes