“People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there—to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“Good things don’t last forever.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“War breeds war.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“What’s really important for people, what really has dignity, is how they die. Compared to that, he thought, how you lived doesn’t amount to much. Still, how you live determines how you die.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“But things in the past are like a plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“The longer people live, the more they learn to distinguish what’s important from what’s not.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“This is pretty obvious, but until things happen, they haven’t happened. And often things aren’t what they seem.” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
“Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all” — Highlighted by Earl Migriño in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami