Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In th... - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."
"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."
"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."
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."
"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."