# Quote — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

> I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.

- Author: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md)
- Book: [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/i-would-stare

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> Maybe what Hatsumi had said to me had had some effect: I could make myself feel far happier just thinking about Naoko than sleeping with some stupid, anonymous girl.

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> "I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a damn thing, and then they bitch."

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> "I have to pay the price to go on living"

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