Norwegian Wood Quotes

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

Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only a**holes do that.

What makes us most normal is knowing that we’re not normal.

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

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for – and to do it so unconsciously.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.

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.

Letters are just pieces of paper. Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk 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.