Wind Up Bird Chronicle Quotes

#1. The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Justine Larbalestier

#2. He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

Ian McDonald

#3. A tiny torrent of diarrhea had popped the offending dart right back out of his gut.

Monique Happy

#4. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.

Haruki Murakami

#5. The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

#6. That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can't follow them all the way to the end.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Charles Dickens

#8. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#9. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#11. We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five.

Ken Robinson

#12. I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.

A.J. Darkholme

#14. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#15. Here is an amazement - once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.

Mary Oliver

#16. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#17. I always idolized guys like Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Steve Young and the entire 49ers team, really. I was a huge 49ers fan growing up.

Reggie Bush

#18. I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

David Alan Grier

#19. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru

Haruki Murakami

#20. It was easier to be a leader when you weren't surrounded by total idiots.

Robert J. Crane

#21. I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

Britt Ekland

#22. By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.

John C. Maxwell

#23. All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Sophocles