Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I miss you something awful sometimes"
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"I miss you something awful sometimes"
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger"
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed. The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I suddenly thought about my old girlfriend, the one I had first slept with in my third year of high school. Chills ran through me as I realized how badly I had treated her. I had hardly ever thought about her thoughts or feelings or the pain I had caused her. She was such a sweet and gentle thing, but at the time I had taken her sweetness for granted and later hardly gave her a second thought. What was she doing now? I wondered. And had she forgiven me?"
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"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."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you"
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I'd swallow some whiskey and listen to the waves while I thought about Naoko. It was too strange to think that she was dead and no longer part of this world. I couldn't absorb the truth of it. I couldn't believe it. I had heard the nails being driven into the lid of her coffin, but I still couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me."
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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