For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Haruki Murakami, quote from Kafka on the ShoreīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.Īnd once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.Īn you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones.

There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time.

So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn.

You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.

Murakami on the shore