What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.