More quotes by Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
"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."
"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."
"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."