I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.
Haruki MurakamiEverybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.
Haruki MurakamiMy 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 MurakamiSometimes I feel so- I donโt know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything youโre used to has been ripped away. Like thereโs no more gravity, and Iโm left to drift in outer space with no idea where Iโm goingโ Like a little lost Sputnik?โ I guess so.
Haruki MurakamiPerhaps most people in the world arenโt trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. Itโs all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. Youโd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?
Haruki MurakamiSo I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.
Haruki Murakami