Birthday Girl Quotes

“No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.”
― Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

“It’s as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

“That’s because you’ve already made your wish.”
― Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

“Los deseos no deben contarse a nadie”
― Haruki Murakami, La chica del cumpleaños

“She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,” she said. “What would you have wished for if you had been in my position?”
“On the night of my twentieth birthday, you mean?”
“Uh-huh.”
I took some time to think about that, but I couldn’t come up with a single wish.
“I can’t think of anything,” I confessed. “I’m too far away now from my twentieth birthday.”
“You really can’t think of anything?”
I nodded.
“Not one thing?”
“Not one thing.”
She looked into my eyes again—straight in—and said, “That’s because you’ve already made your wish.”
― Haruki Murakami, La chica del cumpleaños

“Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really know what life is all about. I don’t know how it works”
― Haruki Murakami, La chica del cumpleaños

“The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put it simply”—he placed his hands on the desk and took one long, slow breath—”what I would like to do for a lovely young fairy such as you is to grant a wish you might have, to make your wish come true. Anything. Anything at all that you wish for—assuming that you do have such a wish.”
― Haruki Murakami, La chica del cumpleaños

“Of course I'd like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can't imagine what would happen if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don't really know what life is all about. I don't know how it works.”
― Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl