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Norwegian Wood

First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is su

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Haruki Murakami (64)

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: real love, Sincerity, True Love, Faith

“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: strength, perseverance

“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Reality, Reality Construction, distance to the world, Life

“April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked happy. People would throw their coats off and enjoy each other’s company in the sunshine—talking, playing catch, holding hands. But I was always by myself.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Hurting Others, Love

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Bottling Feelings, Letting it Out

“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 figure it’s going to be a long process and that yo…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice, Patience, Life, Problems, Solving Problems

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Sorrow, Misery, Losing, Experience, Life

“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 match…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Patience, sympathy, Empathy, kindness

“But you, you’re special to me. When I’m with you I feel something is just right. I believe in you. I like you. I don’t want to let you go.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Special Someone, Confession, admiration, Cute Things To Say To Her

“The one thing I don’t want to be is a burden to anyone.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Burden, Problem

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Problems, Own World, little world of yours, Helping Others, Helping

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Feelings, Feeling Loved, Love & Connection, Loved

“Every once in a while, she’ll get worked up and cry like that. But that’s OK. 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, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, emotions, Crying, Sadness, Control

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Wound, Pain, Heartache

“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, amazon.com

“I’m not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you — better than anyone else in the world.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Understanding, Time

“I’m not very good at putting my feelings into words. That’s why people misunderstand me.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Misunderstanding

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Hurting Someone