More quotes by Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
"This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope."
"Wherever there's hope there's a trial."
"Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish."
"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."