Haruki Murakami

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#cry #anger

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#faith

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #death

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#novel #beauty

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #writing #dreams

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphor

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#descriptive #flying #prose #writing #description

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life