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“We had no sense of the oppressiveness of sex or the anguish that comes with the sudden swelling of the ego that ordinary kids experience when they reach puberty.”

Book:Norwegian Wood

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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once. If I tried to cuddle up and beg for something, they'd just shove me away and yell at me. 'No! That costs too much!' It's all I ever heard. So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally 365 days a year.”

Norwegian Wood

Author:Haruki Murakami

“The moon was so bright, I turned the lights off and stretched out on the sofa to listen to Bill Evans' piano. Streaming through the window, the moonlight cast long shadows and splashed the walls with a touch of diluted Indian ink.”

Norwegian Wood

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“He could charge forward, the optimistic leader, even as his heart writhed in a swamp of loneliness. I saw these paradoxical qualities of his from the start, and I could never understand why they weren’t just as obvious to everyone else. He lived in his own special hell.”

Norwegian Wood

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“You are a weird one. Making jokes with a perfectly straight face.”

Norwegian Wood Midori

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“And every night I would think of you. Now that I can no longer see you, I realized how much I needed you. School is incredibly boring, but as a matter of self-discipline I am going to all my classes and doing all the assignments. Everything seems pointless since you left.”

Norwegian Wood Toru Watanabe

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“I find myself clinging instead to other standards - like , whether or not something is fair or honest or universally true.”

Norwegian Wood

Author:Haruki Murakami

“Time is and it isn’t… It can be your greatest enemy or your greatest friend. But it all depends on you.”

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Book:The Timekeeper's Secret

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“This man says he has read The Great Gatsby three times," he said as if to himself. "Well, any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine.”

Norwegian Wood Nagasawa

Author:Haruki Murakami

“Clutching these faded, fading imperfect memories to my breast, I go on writing this book with all the desperate intensity of a starving man sucking on bones.”

Norwegian Wood

Author:Haruki Murakami

“At last, Midori's quiet voice broke the silence: "Where are you now?" Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my head and turned to see what lay beyond the phone box. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place.”

Norwegian Wood

Author:Haruki Murakami

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