I 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
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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage, October 25, 2011) (via Thoughts)
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Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul?
Haruki Murakami
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—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]
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You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.
Haruki Murakami
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I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.
Haruki Murakami
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I close my eyes, but I can't fall asleep, my body dying for rest while my mind's wide awake.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Contemporary weird fiction reading list
A chart of New Weird books and other bizarre, unsettling, and uncanny literature published in the last 30 years or so. This is a follow-up to my previous chart of classic weird fiction and another selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature.
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