"It is not that the meaning cannot be explained.
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words."
- 1Q84, Haruki Murakami

Can't wait for the term to end so I'll have no excuse to not get back to reading.

"Chanced encounters are what keep us going."
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shores

“You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains.
You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines.
You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows.
This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.”

- Bob Marley

“Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. 
Mercutio: And so did I. 
Romeo: Well, what was yours? 
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. 
Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.”

―William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired:
whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be,
and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Kerenina

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If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair,
but ask me what I am living for, and in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully
for the thing I want to live for.

- Thomas Merton

What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question, 
one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation that never come.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles,
illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Life is short. From here to that old car you know well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces.
It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are.
And we shall live happily ever after.

- Valdimir Nabokov, Lolita