Kim

“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Maybe we'll have more fun this summer but this particular fun is over. I want it to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally-- that's why I gave this party.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“There's nothing at all in here," she said much later, her voice hoarse. "I'm cleaned out. Empty.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“But my one-day absence was probably not having an effect on anybody. Not one human being had noticed that I was gone, likely. I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle