Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possib... - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"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."

"People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring."