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“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper training, she’d be so much further along!â€� But I was wrong about that. She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to systematize it. They end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I’ve seen my share of people like that. At first you think they’re amazing. Like, they can sight-read some terrifically difficult piece and do a damn good job playing it all the way through. You see them do it, and you’re overwhelmed. you think, ‘I could never do that in a million years.â€� But that’s as far as they go. They can’t take it any further. And why not? Because they won’t put in the effort. Because they haven’t had the discipline pounded into them. They’ve been spoiled. They have just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any effort and they’ve had people telling them how great they are from the time they’re little, so hard work looks stupid to them. They’ll take some piece another kid has to work on for three weeks and polish it off in half the time, so the teacher figures they’ve put enough into it and lets them go to the next thing. And they do that in half the time and go on to the next piece. They never find out what it means to be hammered by the teacher; they lose out on a certain element required or character building. It’s a tragedy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do want to try my best though. I have to, or else I won't know where to go. Like you said before, Naoko and I have to save each other. It's the only was for us to be saved!”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I began guitar after coming here as there wasn't a piano about. I taught myself, but my fingers just aren't cut out for the guitar, so I can't seem to get very good. Still, I like the innstrument. It's light, simple, straighforward, like a warm little room, nice and cozy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Benim kiÅŸisel duygum, Midori enikonu sıradışı bir kız olmalı. Mektuplarınızı okurken, ona aşık olduÄŸunuzu iyice anladım. Naoko'ya aşık olduÄŸunuzu da kabul ediyorum. Ve bu sizin suçunuz deÄŸil. Böyle ÅŸeyler sık sık oluyor. Çok güzel bir havada çok güzel bir gölde gemiyle gezmek kadar basit bir ÅŸey. Gökyüzü pırıl pırıl, manzara göz kamaÅŸtırıcı. Bu yüzden, böyle acı çekmekten vazgeçeceksiniz. Ä°nsan kendini bırakınca iÅŸler olması gerektiÄŸi gibi gider ve ne yaparsanız yapın, insanlar kırılınca kırılmıştır demektir. YaÅŸam böyle. Belki size biraz çok bilmiÅŸ gibi görünebilirim, ama sanırım sizin de başınızın çaresine bakmanızın zamanı yakında gelip çatacaktır: Kimi zaman yaÅŸamı, istediÄŸiniz biçime sokmak için fazla zorluyorsunuz. EÄŸer bir akıl hastanesine girmek istemiyorsanız, yüreÄŸinizi biraz daha açmanız ve kendinizi olayların akışına bırakmanız gerekli. Güçsüz ve kusurlu bir kadın olsam da kimi zaman yaÅŸamın olaÄŸanüstü güzel bir ÅŸey olması gerektiÄŸini düşündüğüm oluyor! Size yemin ederim ki doÄŸru bu. O halde sizin çok daha mutlu olmanız gerekir. Mutlu olmak için çaba gösterin.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you are in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood