Sumire Quotes

#1. In the instant Miu touched her hair, Sumire fell in love, like she was crossing a field and bang! a bolt of lightning zapped her right in the head. Something akin to an artistic revelation.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, soothing breath. Only Sumire could do that for me.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The person she fell in love with happened to be 17 years older than Sumire. And was married. And, I should add, was a woman. This is where it all began, and where it all ended.

Haruki Murakami

#4. If I had my way, me too," Sumire said, beaming. "But what
can you do? Wonderful things always come to an end.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Love Egoist
Sumire: At first, I was simply fighting the image others forced on me. It's true that it's kind of fun to curse people behind their backs, but ... I know it's not nice and it makes me feel depressed afterward.

Bisco Hatori

#6. Sumire was so bereft of household goods the place looked deserted. There weren't any curtains in the windows and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a gang of intellectual refugees.

Haruki Murakami

#7. If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are.

Oakley Hall

#8. Have you ever confused your senses? Something taste like another thing smells?

Katherine Reay

#9. There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery.

Eduardo Galeano

#10. What I can give is not necessary what you will get but along our disagreements we will find some alternate ways.

Santosh Kalwar

#11. If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Sylvia Plath

#12. There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Robert Smith Surtees

#13. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. I know by a full assurance that I am justified by faith which is in Christ Jesus, and treated as if I had been perfectly just, and made an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ; and yet by nature I must take my place among the most sinful.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon