Haruki Murakami Quotes

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Some people value sentiments over diamonds.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.

The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor important enough to be sought after by collectors, my charges are dear to me, even if, as often as not, they are as dull on the inside as on the outside. No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.