Haruki Murakami

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love-story #lovers #sadness #tears #love

Life: I’ll never understand it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#short-story #tony-takitani #life

In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#religion #freedom

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #seduction #sex #women #love

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#option #realization #life

Never really loved by anyone, never seeming really to love anyone either ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love

出該出的力氣，忍該忍的痛苦，對自己能交代過去。 ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational

And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love.  ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreamlike #surreal #love

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#writing #dreams