Tokyo Decadence
Ryū Murakami
Top 10 Best Quotes
“when beautiful women get angry, it scares people. Ugly women get mad and it’s just comical, right?”
“Self-esteem isn’t an emotion. Self-esteem is just self-knowledge, a solid understanding of your limitations. It’s living according to your own standards.”
“If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never find it.”
“talking with him made me realize I wasn’t the only one. “I mean, it’s like everybody’s acting out a part,” he’d tell me. “They say stuff they don’t really think, or do stuff they don’t really feel like doing, and after a while you find yourself acting the same way.”
“They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s not true. The cover is all you get. But it is true that appearances can be deceptive, surely. Only if you let yourself be influenced by what other people think. If you trust your own feelings, you can judge anybody by the way they look and never go wrong.”
“Surely he’d have no trouble finding a replacement for someone like me.” “You may like to tell yourself that, but it’s only an excuse for not giving a damn about his feelings. Anyway, enough of that.”
“Over the previous four days I had prepared my answers to all the questions I thought she might ask. Such is the wisdom—or the sad compulsion—of someone who was semi-autistic as a child.”
“I was worried that at this rate our mutual affection might begin to cool, that the special feelings we had for each other would end up as nothing more than close friendship. Male–female relationships are always in transition. If there’s no forward progress, things tend to slip backwards.”
“I never liked to just absorb something somebody else created. I’m too self-conscious, and too critical, I guess, and it always felt like I was wasting time. But after you went away... well, it started to feel like time was wasting me. Every tick of the second hand was like a needle in my skin. Tick, tick, tick...”
“I hate people who break down crying when you’re trying to talk about something important. Men and women both. You can’t trust weepy people. They think they’re the center of the world, and that their tears can absolve them of anything.”
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Book Keywords:
judgement, wasted-life, love, time, comical, dreams, self-conscious, goals, self-esteem, wasted-time, romance, humor, mad
