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South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel

Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.<

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Haruki Murakami (7)

“I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Finding Yourself, Self-Discovery, Identity, New Me, Growing Up

“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Person, others' lives, person's life, Self-Care, Life

“I love you very much. I loved you from the first day I met you, and I still feel the same. If I hadn’t met you, my life would have been unbearable. For that I am grateful beyond words.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, grateful, romance

“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Missing, Love, Relationships

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Pain, hurt, Relationships

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much th…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Relationships

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Leaving, Losing Control, Finding Yourself