"Norwegian Wood" Quotes

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

I want you to be with me. I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.