{"quotes":[{"text":"(When asked “Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?”)I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: “What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!” She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that’s why I’m writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["family","funny","haruki-muakami","midori","norwegian-wood","relationships","wife"],"id":3309,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["beautiful","emotional","norwegian-wood"],"id":15410,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly.  Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":22977,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed. The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":29263,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Count your blessings.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["blessing","norwegian-wood"],"id":34300,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":37863,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":42917,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":46280,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I love you,' I said to her. 'From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move.'Because of her?'I nodded.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":60894,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"I'd swallow some whiskey and listen to the waves while I thought about Naoko. It was too strange to think that she was dead and no longer part of this world. I couldn't absorb the truth of it. I couldn't believe it. I had heard the nails being driven into the lid of her coffin, but I still couldn't adjust to the fact that she had returned to nothingness.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["book","books","norwegian-wood"],"id":80028,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}