Some quotes from Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don’t, and when they’re trying to run away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them."
"There is only one kind of happiness but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes."
"Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness is a story."
"People are drawn together by tragedy not by their own defects but by their own virtues."
"In dreams begin responsibilities."
"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."
