"Kafka on the Shore" Quotes
A teenage boy running away from home and an elderly man on a quest to find a lost cat are brought together in a surreal and magical tale filled with talking cats, fish falling from the sky, and parallel universes.
fiction | 467 pages | Published in 2002
Quotes
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive.
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact.
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
Listening to an old song brings back memories, and suddenly you realize how badly you've been abandoned.
It's not that the world is split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.
I think memories are like this old well that we can keep throwing stones into, then never hear them hit bottom.
You can't just eat good food and wear nice clothes. You've got to think about the larger issues.
