The Strange Library Quotes

“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don’t know something, go to the library and look it up.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it is with your mother, and so it is with your starling. As it is with everyone. The world follows its own course.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“So just because I don’t exist in the sheep man’s world, it doesn’t mean that I don’t exist at all.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Our worlds are all jumbled together--your world, my world, the sheepman's world. Sometimes they overlap and sometimes they don't.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“She didn't answer. Instead, she smiled sweetly. It was a smile so radiant that the air seemed to thin around it.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Like a blind dolphin, the night of the new moon silently drew near.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“I lie here by myself in the dark at two o'clock in the morning and think about that cell in the library. About how it feels to be alone, and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Enough of your prattle," the old man said. "I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. Such people are common trash.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“And any anxiety that is to not especially anxious is in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy, that’s why. They’re nice and creamy. And sort of grainy at the same time.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“It was a small soft hand. I thought my heart might break in two.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“She was so pretty that looking at her made my eyes hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The sheep man has his world. I have mine. And you have yours, too. Am I right? “That you are.” So just because I don’t exist in the sheep man’s world, it doesn’t mean that I don’t exist at all. “I get it,” I said. “Our worlds are all jumbled together—your world, my world, the sheep man’s world. Sometimes they overlap and sometimes they don’t. That’s what you mean, right?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Every time I get new shoes, it takes me a while to get used to their noise.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Mr. Sheep Man," I asked. "Why would that old man want to eat my brains?"
"Because brains packed with knowledge are yummy, that's why. They are nice and creamy. And sort of grainy at the same time".”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The library was even more hushed than usual.

Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. Such people are common trash.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Hay puntos en que confluyen unos mundos con otros, y puntos en los que no se superponen.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Das Blöde an einem Labyrinth ist, dass man erst am Ende weiß ob der Weg, für den man sich entschieden hat, richtig oder falsch war. Und wenn man am Ende merkt, dass man sich geirrt hat, ist es meistens zu spät. Das ist das Problem bei Labyrinthen.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don’t know if you’ve chosen the right path until the very end.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don’t know if you’ve chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it’s usually too late to go back and start again. That’s the problem with mazes.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library