Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Do you think you weren’t loved enough?” She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod. “Somewhere between not enough and not at all."
Haruki Murakami (via obseo)
Haruki Murakami, IQ84
"
I telephoned Midori. “I have to talk to you,” I said. “I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
Midori responded with a long, long silence—the silence of all the misty rain in the world falling on all the new-mown lawns of the world. Forehead pressed against the glass, I shut my eyes and waited. At last, Midori’s quiet voice broke the silence: “Where are you now?”
Where was I now?
Gripping the receiver, I raised my head and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.
"
Norwegian Wood (via wrenlaughslast)
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment."
Haruki Murakami. (via vinteur)
"My arm was not the one she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. I felt almost guilty of being me."
Haruki Murakami (via xhellokiri)
"Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life."
Toru Watanabe. Norwegian Wood.
“I once had a girl, or should I say… She once had me.”
Happy Cover Tuesday!
New stuff added to my library!
So my bookshelf is almost completely full due to my recent purchases today.
From Kinokuniya we have:
Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood
I’ve heard heaps of stuff about this and I’m very eager to start reading it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
I finished reading this from an old hardback copy that I found in Mars Hill cafe, I just wanted it on my shelf.
From QBD I bought Chuck Palahinuk’s Fight Club, finished it in a day. It’s so much more different from the movie. Expected that.
From Dymocks I bought The Essential Ernest Hemingway as well as The Old Man and The Sea great stuff it is.
My bookshelf is running out of space and I have to start clearing out the middle section and move all my uni books into the cupboard. Need space!
