As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.” — Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (Kodansha USA Inc; 1st edition, January 1, 1994)
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (KNOPF.; First Edition edition 1997)
The most he could do was create a place where his heart–devoid now of any depth or weight–could be tethered, to keep from wandering aimlessly. — Haruki Murakami, from “Kino,” Men Without Women: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
and from a thousand milesof soft memories andbad haikus away Ilet you pull me in,all warm and dry likea towel at the beach, whichwe lifted like that postcard From the Shade Garden—You are still everywhere,I wish you were here — Timmy Chong, from “I Know There’s Still a War Outside,” Up the Staircase Quarterly (no.… Continue reading Timmy Chong
The most he could do was create a place where his heart–devoid now of any depth or weight–could be tethered, to keep from wandering aimlessly. — Haruki Murakami, from “Kino,” Men Without Women: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried? — Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go. (Vintage March 14, 2006)
I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. (KNOPF.; First Edition edition 1997)
this is our secret world, filled withthe unreachable, — Yang Mu, from “Fourteen Sonnets for Ming-ming,” No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu (Yale University Press, 1998)
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they’re just repeating what others before them have done.” ― Yukio Mishima, After the Banquet ( Vintage Uk, May 31, 2001) Originally published March 11th 1999.
Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn without incident and end as it had begun. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. (Harvill/Panther 1999:; Limited centenary ed edition 1999) Originally published 1994.
The Vale of Soul-Making 