Cas > Cas's Quotes

“A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate, there's no connection. And even supposing the will is there, there are times like now when we don't know the other party's number. Or even if we know the number, we misdial.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“She gives physical presence to the depths of the human psyche.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Ships passing in broad daylight.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“To conserve energy, her little planet stopped spinning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess confidence in darkness? In the dark, you can't see.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“Pain is what gives rise to meditation”
― Haruki Murakami

“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.”
― Haruki Murakami