It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.
“How much do you love me?’ Midori asked.
‘Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,’ I said.”
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
“ What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously. ”
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
— Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
- 村上春樹, 挪威的森林