More quotes by Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.The pain is an anchor, mooring me here."
"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."
"If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it."
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them."