Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way... - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better."

"In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene."

"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."

"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."