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Sputnik Sweetheart

Soon to be a motion picture!The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hila

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Haruki Murakami (11)

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreamer, Visionary, Goal-Oriented, inspiration, Encouraging

“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Hope, aspiration, Goals

“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Lonely, Friendless

“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships

“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Words, Strange Feeling

“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Falling In Love, Love, Tornado

“Falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: True Love, Falling In Love, tomorrow

“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendshi…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.ca

Tagged: Haruki Murakami

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.’”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.ca

Tagged: Haruki Murakami

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

— Haruki Murakami, goodreads.com

Tagged: Dreams