"Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" Quotes
A man embarks on a journey to uncover the reasons behind his friends' sudden rejection in his youth.
fiction | 308 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Dreams come from the past, not from the future.
No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse.
You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
The person you are is a hundred, a thousand, a million times more interesting than the best book you’ve ever read.
Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
The world is full of contradictions. They’re not necessarily a bad thing. Contradictions are just a sign of complexity.
What you seek is seeking you.
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you.
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
No one can understand someone who doesn't understand themselves.
