January 2011
““Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Kafka on the Shore (via comolamiel)
“…here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever...”
– South of the Border, West of the Sun (via comolamiel)
“What you were just talking about… I don’t know, it’s kind of impossible for...”
– Haruki Murakami; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via bbblue)
“Ice is cold; roses are red; I’m in love.”
– Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami (via idonthaveherpes)
“She tipped her head a little and said nothing. With her back to me, she allowed...”
– A Poor-Aunt Story, 村上 春樹 (via thisvelvetmorning)
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for...”
– South of the Border, West of the Sun (via comolamiel)
“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I...”
– Norwegian Wood (via comolamiel)
“Letters are just pieces of paper,” I said. “Burn them, and what stays in your...”
– Norwegian Wood (via comolamiel)
“Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via ssaturn)
“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹)
From Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ)
“What makes us most normal is knowing that we’re not normal.”
– Haruki Murakami (via cing-cangkeling11)
“Sure. But to put it another way, I’m more accustomed to the self who doesn’t...”
– Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (via Mark Robertson)
“I like ordinary stories.”
– Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (via Mark Robertson)
“Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s all right...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Kangaroo Communique (via bookwormlily)
“Loneliness wasn’t such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak...”
– Haruki Murakami (A Wild Sheep Chase, page 290)
“She would sit in some rock-music cafe all day long, drink cup after cup of...”
– A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami (via vanishedd)
Never trust a heart that's so bent it can't break:... →
chrishtkinney:
“In ancient times people weren’t just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a…
“Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their...”
– A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami (via keezay)
“You know how they’ve got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you...”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (via sufferbus)
“If it’s tuna, Kwa’mura tried. Tied up, try to find.
Tries the tuna, tie it,...”
– Kawamura Cat: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
(via stardustcapriccio)
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
“Whenever she came across lines she liked, she’d mark them in pencil and commit...”
– Description of Sumire, from Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart. 6 pages in and it’s already struck me.
[Although I don’t mark the page, I post the quote to tumblr.]
(via halften)
“The ideal way to spend a summer holiday. Hot, alone, and free, not bothering...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (via halften)
“Short woman:
“You’re employing the status quo and the cheap phallocentric logic...”
– Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the shore”, London 2005, page 234-235. (via oshimasherring)
“Every once in a while she’ll get worked up and cry like that. But that’s OK....”
– Haruk Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via purrly)
“natural, the carpeting sumptuous. Before I knew it, the limo was in motion, like...”
– Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (via Mark Robertson)
“I’m going to take you out of here,” I said, cutting her off. “I’m going to take...”
– Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (via Brent Schauer)
“But as somebody once wrote somewhere, you need one of three things for a long...”
– Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (via Mark Robertson)
“Here’s what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,” said May Kasahara. “Everybody’s born...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (via scythianlingo)
“Somewhere, far, far away, there’s a shitty island. An island without a name. An...”
– Haruki Murakami; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (via bbblue)
Doshite: “You prefer to think things over all by... →
doshite:
“You prefer to think things over all by yourself. And you don’t like people peeking inside your head. Maybe that’s because you’re an only child. You’re used to thinking and acting alone. You figure that as long as you think you understand something, that’s enough.” She shook her head. “And that…
“Try as you might to avoid it, when it was time, they came for you.”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami (via thebearwhostoleyourcupcake)
“No doubt about it: a whole day had gone by. But my one-day absence was probably...”
– Haruki Murakami; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via bbblue)
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via contrive)
“She’s raising wordless screams,
and bleeding invincible blood.”
– After Dark (Haruki Murakami)
#3,000.
Hello. This’ll most probably be my first time dedicating a post as I’m usually never lucky or I didn’t really bother but since I just so happened to see my post count on 2,999, I thought, “why not?”
Basically, I’d like to thank each and every follower I have on tumblr and also, every single tumblr-er who’s inspired me. Also, I’d truly love to thank...
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