Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? Theyβre nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You donβt get it, Iβm sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. Itβs true.
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- That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution β¨ Haruki Murakami (1993). Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel, Vintage
- People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerne β¦ βΆ
- What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love. β¨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from May 07, 2014
- It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. β¨ Haruki Murakami (2011). After The Quake, p.100, Random House
- An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body. β¨ Haruki Murakami (2011). What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, p.98, Random House
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