Quotes from "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"

A few quotes that I jotted down as I read "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami.

"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy." 

"I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for." 

"To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all." 

"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with someone else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."

"He inherited from his mother's stories the fundamental style he used, unaltered, in his own stories: namely, the assumption that fact may not be truth, and truth may not be factual."