# Quote — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

> The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only. They floated over the earth in silence, carrying farm tools and baskets and some kind of sack.

- Author: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md)
- Book: [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norwegian_Wood_(novel)#Chapter_Six) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/the-ground-was

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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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