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Norwegian Wood Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I really like you, Midori. A lot.鈥�
鈥淗ow much is a lot?鈥�
鈥淟ike a spring bear,鈥� I said.
鈥淎 spring bear?鈥� Midori looked up again. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 that all about? A spring bear.鈥�
鈥淵ou鈥檙e walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring, and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 鈥淗i, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?鈥� So you and the bear cub spend the whole day in each other鈥檚 arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?鈥�
鈥淵eah. Really nice.鈥�
鈥淭hat鈥檚 how much I like you.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“So what鈥檚 wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days a year, I was still in elementary school at the time - fifth or sixth grade - but I made up my mind once and for all.鈥�

鈥淲ow,鈥� I said. 鈥淒id the search pay off?鈥�

鈥淭hat鈥檚 the hard part,鈥� said Midori. She watched the rising smoke for a while, thinking. 鈥淚 guess I鈥檝e been waiting so long I鈥檓 looking for perfection. That makes it tough.鈥�

鈥淲aiting for the perfect love?鈥�

鈥淣o, even I know better than that. I鈥檓 looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you鈥檙e doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don鈥檛 want it anymore and throw it out the window. That鈥檚 what I鈥檓 looking for.鈥�

鈥淚鈥檓 not sure that has anything to do with love,鈥� I said with some amazement.

鈥淚t does,鈥� she said. 鈥淵ou just don鈥檛 know it. There are time in a girl鈥檚 life when things like that are incredibly important.鈥�

鈥淭hings like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?鈥�

鈥淓xactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. 鈥淣ow I see, Midori. What a fool I have been! I should have known that you would lose your desire for strawberry shortcake. I have all the intelligence and sensitivity of a piece of donkey shit. To make it up to you, I鈥檒l go out and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?鈥�

鈥淪o then what?鈥�

鈥淪o then I鈥檇 give him all the love he deserves for what he鈥檚 done.鈥�

鈥淪ounds crazy to me.鈥�

鈥淲ell, to me, that鈥檚 what love is鈥�”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off?

M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a
long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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