— Haruki Murakami

"But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair." 

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. 

It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything." 

"I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong."

"We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds."

"People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

THOSE WHO HATE MOST FERVENTLY MUST HAVE ONCE LOVED DEEPLY; THOSE WHO WANT TO DENY THE WORLD MUST HAVE ONCE EMBRACED WHAT THEY NOW SET ON FIRE.

"You are the distance between the way things are and the way I want them to be."