
Silk (Vintage International)

At some point in time, the world I knew either vanished or withdrew, and another world came to take its place. Like the switching of a track. In other words, my mind, here and now, belongs to the world that was, but the world itself has already changed into something else.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. Whenever she came in here, Aomame felt as if she had lost all sense of time.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.