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Related She was a sweetheart. She was quirky, she was shy, but not if you knew her. ... (She was) just someo... JON CAREY We miss her. She had a happy life ... she was at a point in her life where she was comfortable with ... AMY URIELL Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—whic... HARUKI MURAKAMI She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE He grinned, a woman’s downfall wrought in a simple stretch of his lips. It was her downfall, certa... ASHLYN MACNAMARA She is a super person, and her leadership abilities have been instrumental in our success. She is po... CHRIS BROWN The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... LEO TOLSTOY She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become t... ERICA BAUERMEISTER My mother started out by being a very good girl. 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SCOTT Once she summed up her carrer simply: 'I dug things up. I was curious. And then I liked to draw what... MARY LEAKEY My reflections amount to a love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, b... OLIVIA SUDJIC She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at... MARC FITTEN Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at... MARK FITTER When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twic... SOPHIA LOREN When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twi... SOPHIA LOREN She thought often of her own death, but without fear, loss having been her only belonging in this li... 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JOHANNA LINDSEY How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... ELIZABETH GASKELL Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, lik... JENNIFER MCMAHON Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to m... PETER USTINOV But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... AYN RAND Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore... ZORA NEALE HURSTON She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ... PAULO COELHO If she needs a nap, I could just hang out and wait for her to wake up right? I could like down near ... 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HARUKI MURAKAMI Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people. HARUKI MURAKAMI We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all. HARUKI MURAKAMI Learning another language is like becoming another person. HARUKI MURAKAMI Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ... HARUKI MURAKAMI To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q... HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr... HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus... HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope... HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH... HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they... HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was... HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such... HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for... HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o... HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI