“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“But that calm won't last long, you know. It's like beasts that never tire, tracking you everywhere you go. They come out at you deep in the forest. They're tough, relentless, merciless, untiring, and they never give up.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The concept of death was beyond his powers of imagination. And pain was something he wasn't aware of until he actually felt it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I have found that — no one in the world pities you! But perhaps you do not know the world — ah! it is very hard and cold; all the people hide their feelings and pretend to be what they are not. It is difficult to live so, and I am tired!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Now, when for the third time his fairy castle of perfect peace and pleasure seemed shaken to its foundations, when he again realized the uncertainty of life or death, he felt bewildered and wretched.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet, were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com