The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his lifeโbigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.
Haruki MurakamiIn the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
Haruki MurakamiShe waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that peopleโs hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows whatโs at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Haruki MurakamiLike a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.
Haruki MurakamiI was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person
Haruki Murakami