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“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“When I first met you I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time running away for all you're worth.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You've never ever in your life envied anybody else, or ever wanted to be someone else - but right now you do. You want more than anything to be that boy. Even knowing that at the age of 20 he was going to be smashed over the head with an iron pipe and beaten to death, you'd still change places with him.
You'd do it, to be able to love Miss Saeki for those five years.
And to have her love you with all her heart. To hold her as much as you want, to make love to her over and over. Let your fingers run over every single part of her body, and let her do the same to you. And after you die, your love will become a story etched for ever in her heart. Every single night she'll love you in her memory.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore