

“You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood

“And then we're at that moment when you both go and get what you want or you both go back. The moment when you say, Stuff being scared; what's on the other side is better. That moment when you inch closer to each other little by little, till your skin starts and ends in the same place. Till your faces get so close your lips start and end in the same place, too. Till you taste milk shake and salt and sugar days and the world spins and the stars sound like harmonicas.”
― A Little Wanting Song
― A Little Wanting Song

“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood

“There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together.”
― The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
― The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
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