"Norwegian Wood" is a full-length love novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The reduction and barriers in communication between people lead to a widening of psychological distance. People living in the city are as lonely, empty, and lost as duckweeds, but they are unable to face the pressure of the outside world.
Classic quotes:
1. There are people who like loneliness, but they just don’t like disappointment.
2. Everyone has his own forest. Maybe we have never been there, but it has always been there and will always be there. Those who are lost are lost, and those who meet will meet again.
3. I hope you can remember me, remember that I lived like this, and stayed by your side like this.
4. If you fall into the darkness, all you can do is wait quietly until your eyes adapt to the darkness.
5. Death is not the opposite of life, but exists as a part of life forever.
6. Don’t sympathize with yourself, sympathizing with yourself is what despicable cowards do.
7. I gradually realized that being profound does not mean being close to the truth.
8. Maybe my pericardium has a hard shell, and the things that can break through it are extremely limited. That’s why I can’t be passionate about people.
9. What makes us normal is that we understand our own abnormalities.
10. What you will not forget will never be forgotten, and there is no use keeping what you will forget.
11. No matter how you explain it, people in the world can only believe what they want to believe. The harder we fight, the more embarrassing our situation becomes.
12. Maybe there is a dark place called the memory shelter in my body, where all the precious memories are piled up and turned into a pile of mud.
13. I am not that strong a person. I don’t think it’s okay not to be understood by anyone.
14. When we are in our youth, we will always look into the distance again and again unconsciously, full of longing for the road in the distance, although it flickers and appears, full of confusion. Sometimes it feels like being surrounded by thick fog, and only you can understand the confusion and helplessness. Although I am a little lonely, even though I am confused and helpless, I still face it bravely, because this is my youth, it is not other people’s, it belongs only to me.