Piercing Quotes

“Who knew there were still people like that in this world, though? Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity. 'It must have made you very sad when your own father raped you - can you describe some of your feelings at the time? Yes, I wept and wept, wonder why something like this had to happen to me'. It's like that. Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
― Ryu Murakami, Piercing

“In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Thanks to the imagination, there’s no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why it was necessary to have things like this in the world. If it were truly only for chopping ice, you'd think a completely different design might do. The people who produce and sell things like this don't understand, he thought. They don't realize that some of us break out in a cold sweat at just a glimpse of that shiny, pointed tip.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Everyone’s running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what’s really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Los niños luchaban con desesperación por amar a sus padres. De hecho, antes que odiar a un padre, elegían odiarse a sí mismos.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Such behaviours weren’t the reasons parents abused children but the results of abuse.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Memories are't like words; they're soft and gooey. Covered with a sticky slime, like a penis after sex, or your vagina when you menstruate, and shaped like tadpoles or tiny watersnakes”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“He’s got five rings in his ear, eighteen gauge to ten gauge, but when I told him to get one in his nipple to match mine, and to get a Sailor Moon tattoo - because I like Sailor Moon? - or if not that, a skull, he stopped calling me.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“She stepped towards the door beneath the sign, then stopped and looked back at him. ‘You’ll be right here, right?’
‘I promise.’
‘And you’ll stay with me tonight, won’t you?’
‘Of course. I won’t leave you.’
I’ve got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“The instant you put something like that into words, it was gone. Words and combinations of words - the more you relied on them, the less power you actually had.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“The mental and emotional torment of the old cycle of anxiety - unable to bear being alone, wanting someone always near but growing anxious when someone does get close, fearing that if they get any closer there's no telling what might happen, until the fear itself becomes unbearable and solitude seems the only solution..”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Chiaki believed that if you chose something painful, accepted the pain and left something beautiful behind on your body as a result, you got stronger.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn’t any such thing as help in this world.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else’s story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“It was only when you actually experienced words vanishing that you realised how dry and lifeless they were, like dead leaves or old, discarded money.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“To be able to choose your own pain - it’s a little scary, she thought, but it’s wonderful, too.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease. Kindness, gentleness - anything along those lines just caused tension, since there was no telling when it would turn to overt hostility.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“It’s vital that those on the receiving end of violence ponder its meaning. A sad and bitter but important truth.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“When you have a chronic illness,’ she’d tell him, ‘getting frustrated or impatient with it just makes things worse, right?’ Isn’t that what they say? That you have to live in harmony with an illness? To think of it as an old friend?”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“The mental and emotional torment of the old cycle of anxiety - unable to bear being alone, wanting someone always near but growing anxious when someone does get close, fearing that if they get any closer there’s no telling what might happen, until the fear itself becomes unbearable and solitude seems the only solution”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Just before words vanish they acquire a sickening pulpy smell, like clumps of dead grass whipped by the wind into dry little spheres, and they spill from the brain and the vocal cords, down through the blood vessels and nerves to the deepest, farthest corners of your body.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Y de nada serviría intentar analizar cómo lo había logrado. Desde el momento que pones algo así en palabras, lo pierdes. Las palabras y las combinaciones de palabras: cuanto más dependieras de ellas, menor era tu poder real.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing

“Los recuerdos no son como las palabras; son suaves y viscosos. Están cubiertos de un limo pegajoso, igual que un pene tras el acto sexual, o la vagina durante la menstruación, y tienen la forma de renacuajos o culebrillas de agua. Cuando estos recuerdos durmientes despiertan, empiezan por retorcerse, después nadan, primero despacio, poco a poco más rápido, hasta la superficie. Y una vez que llegan ahí, tus sentidos se cierran. La primera oleada te da en los labios, después en la palma de las manos, en los dedos del pie, en las axilas. Algunos recuerdos se escapan por los poros de la piel y merodean por tu cuerpo como una niebla, esperando a que lleguen los demás y se les unan. Cuando ya están todos ahí, se juntan para formar una imagen, y es como si se encendiera una pantalla de televisor ante tus ojos.”
― Ryū Murakami, Piercing