aseaofquotes:

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear."

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m watching over it for no one but myself."

Pinball 1973 (via harukimurakami)

"By setting the story in 1984, before cell phones and e-mail and the Internet had become common, I made it impossible for my characters to use such tools. This in turn was frustrating for me. I felt their absence slowing down the speed of the novel. When I thought about it, though, not having such devices at the time—both in daily life and in the story—ceased to be an inconvenience. If you wanted to make a phone call, you just found a public telephone; if you had to look something up, you went to the library; if you wanted to contact somebody, you put a stamp on a letter and mailed it. Those were the normal ways to do those things. While writing the novel (and experiencing a kind of time slip), I had a strong feeling of what the intervening twenty-seven years had meant. Sorry to state the obvious, but maybe there’s not much connection between the convenience of people’s surroundings and the degree of happiness they feel."

Haruki Murakami on 1Q84 in The New Yorker. (via somethingchanged)

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“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

-Airplane

by Haruki Murakami

"You were so nice to me when I was having my problems, but now that you’re having yours, it seems there’s not a thing I can do for you. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside."

Haruki Murakami (via littlewhitebird) (via yeahharukimurakami)

"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) (via senshuk)

senshuk:

“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”

— Haruki Murakami  (Kafka on the Shore)