One Thousand Summers

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.  ― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

I am nothing. You are right. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything. − Haruki Murakami,  1Q84

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. − Haruki Murakami,  A Wild Sheep Chase

If I didn't hold her tight, I felt, she would fly off into pieces. — Haruki Murakami,  South of the Border, West of the Sun

A story stays forever--if it is good and finds a place in the hearts of the right people.   — Haruki Murakami: In pursuit of new realism

The world order that had existed collapsed, and a situation like a kind of chaos appeared. I think that (my novels became popular overseas) because their contents match the chaos of the world. In a well-established order, the novels will not be accepted. — Haruki Murakami, somewhere in Asahi newspaper, probably