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"Part 1 was great, complete immersion into Murakami's characters. Putting part 2 and 3 on hold while I dive into some priority reading. Looking forward to the rest." — Sep 05, 2013 05:14PM
"Part 1 was great, complete immersion into Murakami's characters. Putting part 2 and 3 on hold while I dive into some priority reading. Looking forward to the rest." — Sep 05, 2013 05:14PM


“Take me home," she said, and the words hit me like a whip. I think I shook my head. "Take me home." There were levels of pain there, and subtlety, and an amazing cruelty. And I knew then that I'd never been hated, ever, as deeply or thoroughly as this wasted little girl hated me now, hated me for the way I'd looked, then looked away, beside Rubin's all-beer refrigerator.
So--if that's the word--I did one of those things you do and never find out why, even though something in you knows you could never have done anything else.
I took her home.”
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So--if that's the word--I did one of those things you do and never find out why, even though something in you knows you could never have done anything else.
I took her home.”
―

“Awakened by a thousand dogs, a passing truck, the tailspin of a poisoned mosquito (or, perhaps, merely the silence of my dreams), I had, before remembering who and where I was, seen only that green sun suspended in the firmament of my room (her uterus bottled in preserving fluids) and, through seconds that became millennia, millennia aeons, felt the steadfastness of my orbit around that cold glow of love, a marvelous fatal steadfastness, before my pupils dilated and shadows and unease once more defined reality, the steel box naked but for a mattress and insomnious bugs where I had lived, in a coma of heartbreak and drunkenness, the six months since Primavera's death.”
― Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things
― Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
― Point Omega
― Point Omega

“I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.”
― Underworld
― Underworld

“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”
― Pretty Monsters: Stories
― Pretty Monsters: Stories

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