My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.
Haruki MurakamiIn this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
Haruki MurakamiThe power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening oneโs eyes without seeing anything.
Haruki MurakamiSomething in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
Haruki MurakamiYou're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.
Haruki Murakami