Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand."
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"I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"The world is full of ways and means to waste time"
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"Ships passing in broad daylight."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. Personally, I don't buy it."Yuki leaned against the car door. "But that's real hard, isn't it" she said."Real hard," I said. "But it's worth trying for."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?"
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"Sometimes I just get tired. I get headaches, and I just lose track. I mean, it's like which is me and which is the role? Where's the line between me and my shadow?"
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have been soaked in ice water, brushed with horseradish and mustard, served on French butter rolls baked in the hot ovens of Kinokuniya. A sandwich made in heaven"
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile."
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
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