Top 61 Norwegian Wood Quotes
#1. Reiko moved on to the Beatles, playing "Norwegian Wood," "Yesterday," "Michelle," and "Something." She sang and played "Here Comes the Sun," then played "The Fool on the Hill." I laid seven matches in a row.
Haruki Murakami
#2. The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.
David Mitchell
#3. I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.
Haruki Murakami
#4. I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.
John Lennon
#5. What more could you want if you were that smart and that beautiful?
Haruki Murakami
#6. I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
Haruki Murakami
#7. I thought about Kizuki. "So you finally made Naoko yours," I heard myself telling him. Oh, well, she was yours to begin with. Now maybe, she's where she belongs. But in this world, in this imperfect world of the living, I did the best I could for Naoko.
Haruki Murakami
#8. What had happened to the body I held in my arms that night last spring?
Haruki Murakami
#9. Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know.
Haruki Murakami
#10. What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
Haruki Murakami
#11. That one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities
Haruki Murakami
#12. I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
Haruki Murakami
#13. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
Haruki Murakami
#14. There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
Haruki Murakami
#15. I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you
better than anyone else in the world ever can.
Haruki Murakami
#16. I suppose it's all a matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to - the rules, the idiots who think they're hot shit, ...
Haruki Murakami
#17. I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.
Haruki Murakami
#18. No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said.
So hold me. Now. Right here.
Haruki Murakami
#19. Why do you guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair.
Haruki Murakami
#20. I know these things. I'm always right. It's got nothing to do with logic: I just feel it. For example, when I'm really close to you like this, I'm not the least bit scared. Nothing dark or evil could ever tempt me.
Haruki Murakami
#21. Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.
Haruki Murakami
#22. So after he died, I didn't know how to relate to other people. I didn't know what it means to love another person.
Haruki Murakami
#24. Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
Haruki Murakami
#25. Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.
Haruki Murakami
#26. The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. It's true. So think about it carefully.
Haruki Murakami
#27. She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She'd never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn't a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.
Haruki Murakami
#28. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.
Haruki Murakami
#29. It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.
Haruki Murakami
#30. I'll never forget you," I said. "I could never forget you.
Haruki Murakami
#31. Such perfect little circles are impossible to maintain.
Haruki Murakami
#32. Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.
Haruki Murakami
#33. If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix.
Haruki Murakami
#35. She and I had needed each other more than either of us knew.
Haruki Murakami
#36. As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
Haruki Murakami
#37. One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me.
Haruki Murakami
#38. Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.
Haruki Murakami
#39. I miss her every now and then, but finally, she didn't move me. I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it.
Haruki Murakami
#41. You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.
Haruki Murakami
#42. It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger
Haruki Murakami
#43. Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.
Haruki Murakami
#44. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from sleeping with one strange woman after another. It just tires you out and makes you disgusted with yourself.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Everybody feels like that to some extent," I said. "They're trying to express themselves and it bothers them when they can't get it right.
Haruki Murakami
#47. Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough
Haruki Murakami
#49. I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.
Haruki Murakami
#50. I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.
Haruki Murakami
#51. Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
Haruki Murakami
#52. Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.
Haruki Murakami
#53. Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.
Haruki Murakami
#54. They're old enough to know how the world really works, so why are they so stupid? It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you can clean up the shit.
Haruki Murakami
#55. When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.
Haruki Murakami
#56. Like my hairstyle?" she asked.
"It's great."
"How great?"
"Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world.
Haruki Murakami
#57. I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm incredibly cool about shit like that. I could be a Zen saint. The one thing I do have, though, is curiosity. I want to see what I can do out there in the big, tough world.
Haruki Murakami
#58. But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life
Haruki Murakami
#59. No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.
Haruki Murakami
#60. I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move."
"Because of her?"
I nodded.
Haruki Murakami
#61. What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
Haruki Murakami
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