Norwegian Wood (novel) Quotes

“Only the dead stay seventeen forever.”

“"Just remember, life is a box of cookies"”

“"I have to pay the price to go on living"”

“" People are strange when you're a stranger."”

“"When you start at zero, you've got a lot to learn."”

“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life."”

“"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."”

“I'm confused. Really confused. And it's a lot deeper than you think.”

“"And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall."”

“"A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do."”

“"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."”

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

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“"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."”

“"If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."”

“How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? "Quiet, peaceful, and lonely," I said aloud to myself.”

“"If you're in love with someone, can't you manage one way or another with her?" Hatsumi asked after a few moments' thought. "It's complicated."”

“Death exists - in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table - and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.”

“Maybe what Hatsumi had said to me had had some effect: I could make myself feel far happier just thinking about Naoko than sleeping with some stupid, anonymous girl.”

“"I feel like Kizuki is reaching out for me from the darkness, calling to me, "Hey, Naoko, we can't stay apart.' When I hear him saying that, I don't know what to do."”