1Q84 (Vintage International)

“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”

“everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority.

Tengo was able to relax when he was with older women. Not having to take the lead in everything seemed to lift a weight from his shoulders.

Nobody’s easier to fool, Ushikawa thought, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words.

What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

The sun begins to sink. It is time for the cats to come. He knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place

In Search of Lost Time