Men Without Women

by Haruki Murakami

“Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That’s the rule. It can never be exactly the same.”

Wow

If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.”

“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter.”

“Dreams are the kind of things you can—when you need to—borrow and lend out,”

Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.