“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep. It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. 'Hold tight,' I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.”

—Haruki Murakami, Sleep

“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

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Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

ch. 19, p. 303

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”

—Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

—Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Morning is my favorite time of day. It’s like everything’s starting out fresh and new. I begin to get sad around noontime, and I hate it when the sun goes down. I live with those same feelings day after day.”

—Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“As long as there’s such a thing as time, everybody’s damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”

—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked happy. People would throw their coats off and enjoy each other's company in the sunshine—talking, playing catch, holding hands. But I was always by myself.”

—Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood 

“When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible." ”

— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”

—Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

“¿No te asusta pensar que nunca llegues a unirte con la única persona que amas en este mundo?”

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.” ”

—Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

—Haruki Murakami
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