“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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