More quotes by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
"With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
"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."
"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."