Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
This is the first book I finished reading this year, I have actually read it before. I just decided to reread it because I was planning to watch the film adaptation. This novel makes me feel infinitely nostalgic and sad.
I plan on reading more this year, and as I finished reading every single book, I decided I would post it here along with some excerpts that really got to me while reading. I plan on doing this with every film I get to watch too. This is a good start. Hopefully I can continue this all through out this year, and the next years to come.
-“I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse I was in love. Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.”
-“Don’t you see? It’s not just possible for one person to watch over another person forever and ever. I mean, suppose we got married.
You’d have to work during the day. Who’s going to watch over me while yo’re away? Or if you go on a business trip, who’s going to watch over me then? Can I be glued to you every minute of our lives?
What kind of equality would there be in that? What kind of relationship would that be? Sooner or later you’d get sick of me. You’d wonder what you were doing with your life, why you were spending all your time babysitting this woman. I couldn’t stand that. It wouldn’t solve any of my problems.”
-“It’s been like this for a while now. I try to say something, but all I get are the wrong words- the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It’s like I’m split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can’t touch her.”
-“Death exists not as the opposite but as a part of life.”
