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“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. It’s just one form of sincerity.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian wood

“Eventually, though, the tide would pull back, and I would be left on the beach alone. Powerless, I could go nowhere; sorrow itself would envelope me in deep darkness until the tears came. I felt less that I was crying than that the tears were simply oozing out of me like perspiration”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian wood

“Things will go where they’re supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I think of you now more than ever. It’s raining today. Rain Sundays make it hard for me. When it rains, I can’t do laundry, which means I can’t do ironing. I can’t go walking, and I can’t lie down on the roof. About all I can do is put the record player on auto repeat and listen to Kind of Blue over and over while I watch the rain falling in the quadrangle”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“People only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library / The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse / Where the Crawdads Sing

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small.”
― Matt Haig

“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“All good things are wild and free.
Henry David Thoreau.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Men these days are actually much better than previous generations—the ones who used to bring mistresses into the house and make their wives feed and care for their bastard children.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“The only gentlemen I ever see are in those dramas on TV. Those men are kind. They protect you and cry and stand up to their families for you”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“Why would you want to bring more children into this world so that they can suffer and be stressed their entire lives? And they’ll disappoint you and you will want to die. And you’ll be poor”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“Us girls, we have been trained for years: “Say that you were the one who wanted to sleep with the customer. You just wanted some money. Got it?” So the girl gets jailed and fined for prostitution, and vilified in society as someone who does this for easy money. The girls who die in the process—the ones who are beaten to death or the ones who kill themselves—they don’t even make the news.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face