More quotes by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all."
"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."