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“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Tôi đã luôn yêu Naoko, và tôi vẫn yêu cô ấy. Nhưng giữa Midori và tôi lại tồn tại một cái gì đó như định mệnh. Nó có sức mạnh không th�� cưỡng lại được và nhất định s�� cuốn tôi đến tương lai. Cái mà tôi cảm thấy với Naoko là một tình yêu trong vắt, dịu dàng, và yên tĩnh vô cùng. Nhưng cái mà tôi có với Midori lại là một tình cảm khác hẳn. Nó đi theo ý riêng của nó, sống động và hít th�� và phập phồng và lay động tôi cho đến tận cội r�� của bản th��. Tôi không biết phải làm gì. Tôi hoang mang rồi. Tôi s�� không phân bua gì cho mình đâu, nhưng tôi tin chắc là mình đã sống chân thực như mình vẫn biết. Tôi chưa bao gi�� nói dối ai, và bao năm nay vẫn luôn cẩn trọng không làm cho ai phải đau kh��. Vậy mà tôi thấy mình b�� ném vào cái mê cung này đây. Sao lại c�� th�� th�� được? Tôi không lí giải nổi. Tôi không biết mình phải làm gì. Reiko, ch�� có th�� nói cho tôi biết được không? Ch�� là người duy nhất tôi có th�� trông cậy đ�� được khuyên bảo..." (Thư gửi Reiko Ishida. Toru Wantanabe)”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“...Nắm chặt ống nghe trong tay, tôi ngẩng lên và nhìn quanh xem có những gì bên ngoài trạm điện thoại. Tôi đang �� đâu? Tôi không biết. Không biết một tí gì hết. Đây là nơi nào? Tất c�� những gì đang lướt nhanh qua mắt tôi ch�� là vô s�� những hình nhân đang bước đi v�� nơi vô định nào chẳng biết. Tôi gọi Midori, gọi mãi, t�� giữa �� lòng lặng ngắt của chốn vô định ấy...”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Totul se petrece aşa cum îţi este scris şi chiar dacă faci eforturi să nu superi pe nimeni, lumea tot se supără dacă a venit momentul să se supere.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A mi lado, estás desperdiciando tu vida.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Como todos sabemos que somos imperfectos, intentamos ayudarnos los unos a los otros.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“No ambiciono el poder o el dinero. Tal vez sea un egoísta, pero es increíble lo poco que me interesan. En eso parezco un santo. Es más que nada curiosidad. Quiero medir mis fuerzas en el mundo cruel.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Lo que quiero es un simple egoísmo. Un egoísmo perfecto. Por ejemplo: te digo que quiero un pastel de fresa, y entonces tú lo dejas todo y vas a comprármelo.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Estaba en la plenitud de la vida y todo giraba en torno a la muerte.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Αν μελετάς μονάχα τα βιβλία που διαβάζουν όλοι οι άλλοι, θα σκέφτεσαι κι εσύ όπως σκέφτονται όλοι οι άλλοι.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“All of us (by which I mean all of us, both normal and not-so-normal) are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. We don't live with the mechanical precision of a bank account or by measuring all our lines and angles with rulers and protractors.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“People screamed there’d be revolutionary changes—which always seemed to be just ahead, at the curve in the road. But the “changes�� that came were just two-dimensional stage sets, background without substance or meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I wonder what ants do on rainy days.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Death exists, not as the opposite, but as a part of life.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Hey, there, Kizuki, I thought. Unlike you, I've chosen to live - and to live the best I know how.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“But love is like that. When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just one form of sincerity.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“But love is like that. When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just one natural form of sincerity.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“From the girl who sat before me now, though, surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“So if you understand me better, what then?"

"You don't get it, do you?" I said. "It's not a question of 'what then'. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?"

"Kind of like a hobby?" she said, amused.

"Sure, I guess you could call it a hobby. Most normal people would call it friendship or love or something, but if you want to call it a hobby, that's O.K. too.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If you read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Do you think you weren’t loved enough?
“Somewhere between ‘not enough�� and ‘not at all��. 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. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You know how they’ve got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don’t like others? And you eat up all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don’t like so much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. ‘Now I just have to polish these off, and everything’ll be O.K.�� Life is a box of cookies.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I’m much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That’s just the kind of person I am. I’m the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that’s fine with me. I don’t mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Waiting is hard," she said, bouncing the ball. "Especially for someone your age. You just sit and wait for her to get better. Without deadlines or guarantees. Do you think you can do that? Do you love Naoko that much?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Waiting for the perfect love?��

“No, even I know better than that. I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you’re 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’t want it anymore and throw it out the window. That’s what I’m looking for.��

“I’m not sure that has anything to do with love,�� I said with some amazement.

“It does,�� she said. “You just don’t know it. There are time in a girl’s life when things like that are incredibly important.��

“Things like throwing strawberry shortcake out the window?��

“Exactly. And when I do it, I want the man to apologize to me. “Now 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’ll go out and buy you something else. What would you like? Chocolate Mousse? Cheesecake?��

“So then what?��

“So then I’d give him all the love he deserves for what he’s done.��

“Sounds crazy to me.��

“Well, to me, that’s what love is��”
― Murakami Haruki, Norwegian Wood (Hardcover)

“Those beautiful eyes of her were looking inside me for a long, long time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Thinking of what I had lost . . . times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Questo é l’altro consiglio che posso darti: non avere fretta. Anche se la situazione diventa tanto aggrovigliata da sembrare incontrollabile, farsi prendere dalla disperazione o dall’impazienza e forzare le cose sarebbe un grave errore. Bisogna sciogliere tutti quei nodi ad uno ad uno, piano piano, prendendo tutto il tempo che ci vuole.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Conosco la differenza tra le persone che sanno aprire il loro cuore, e quelle che non sanno farlo. Tu sai aprirlo. Ma solo quando dici tu, beninteso.

E se uno lo apre cosa accade?

Si guarisce.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood