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Being a bird, I imagined, must be wonderful. All birds had to do was fly. no need to worry about contraception.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

The building itself almost appeared to be holding its breath.

Don't let the bad elves get you.

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

I hope I don't have an erection, Tengo thought.

Aren't you a little young to be, like, the voice of wisdom or something?

I think he wants to have a different personality to be somebody different from who he's been up till now

I knew for a certain that if I had to do it all over again, I would live this day in exactly the same way.

I looked as if I had just crawled out of a cave somewhere, but it was me after all. It was me.

It made me wonder how other people saw me. Not that I had any way of knowing, of course.

I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.

It's simple. If there's no station, no trains will stop there.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Maybe when people take their eyes off them, inanimate objects become even more inanimate.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

This time sleep came to take me - a deep sleep that all but pulled me by the ankles to the bottom of the sea.

Had the advancement of medicine, then, done nothing more than to expose, subdivide, and further complicate the problems faced by the human species?

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

Once you've hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.

There are - how do you say - things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.

No one can know everything about another person. Not even God, probably.

Passion can't sustain itself
forever.

Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

A crucial aspect of the world that could only be expressed through the medium of music. His

You can't go anywhere if you resign yourself to being attacked.

It took me an eternity to get through the toast, which tasted like lint and was gray from the sky. The sky foretold the end of the world.

I realized that I had never had occasion to look into her eyes like this.

There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.

Whenever I wake up in a strange house I always feel as if the wrong soul got stuffed into the wrong body.

I can't think straight any more. It's as if the core of my body is coagulating.

But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

Tengo was about to say something when he heard the connection cut. Everybody was hanging up on him. Like chopping down a rope bridge.

This place is too calm, too natural
too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.

Her skin retained a faint warmth, but it was already fading away.

You're always Tsukuru," Eri said, and laughed quietly. "So I don't mind. The Tsukuru who makes things. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.

one day she'll wake up like nothing ever happened, and everything'll go back to normal.

Let me tell you, though, my father never once cheated on his taxes. That's just how he is, a real old-fashioned straight arrow.

The world was big and full of weird things and strange people.

You can't keep counting forever

her flesh no longer existed in this world.

I did nothing wrong. All I did was break the law.

Most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition.

She leans forward, revealing an ear: a freshly formed, soap-smooth, pretty ear, its delicate outline glistening with a tracery of fine hairs.

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.

But as Nietzsche said, 'The gods furl their flags at boredom.

If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else

A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness.

Writing a novel is like having a dream.

But she got it wrong. What I imagine is perhaps very important. For the entire world.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything

If you want to take those feelings and smash somebody with them, smash me. Then we can understand each other.

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry - at someone else or at herself - which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.

Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they're asking for trouble.

At three-thirty, she announced, I gotta get going. I'm supposed to meet my sister in the Ginza.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

Sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

No man is capable enough to live forever.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

Waiting for your
answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At
least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.

The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

She preferred coffee as hot and strong as a devil at midnight

What more could you want if you were that smart and that beautiful?

Good-bye, she murmured, bidding farewell not so much to the apartment as to the self that had lived here.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Even now that feeling would sometimes spring up. The sense of leaving himself. Of observing his own pain as if it were not his own.

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt - it never comes off.

I'll never forget you," I said. "I could never forget you.

If you don't know what you're looking for, it's not easy to look for it." Erika

The sad spreadsheet of my life that reveals how much my debts far outweigh my assets.

Whether or not the person I think of as me undergoes any essential changes, the earth never stops circling the sun at it's old speed.

Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

She raised her eyes from the table and put the question to him as if the thought had just struck her, but it had obviously not just struck her.

I've got people I want to understand and people I want to be understood by.

What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

If there's pain I've never tasted, I'd elite to try it.

There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.

There's nothing at all in here," she said much later, her voice hoarse. "I'm cleaned out. Empty.

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.

Richie Beirach Trio

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.

I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.

The clock shows 3 p.m., the two hands cold and distant. They're pretending to be noncommittal, but I know they're not on my side.