adj. extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.
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The express train traced a huge arc along the ocean shore beneath the towering mountains, until it reached a point along the coast where the two moons were visible, hanging side by side in the sky above the quiet sea. They stood out sharply—the big, yellow moon and the small, green one—vivid in outline but their distance impossible to grasp. In their light, the ocean’s tiny ripples shone mysteriously like scattered shards of glass. As the train continued around the curve, the two moons moved slowly across the window, leaving those delicate shards behind, like wordless hints, until they disappeared from view.

— 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

— The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Source: tenderskin Haruki Murakamiharukimurakami
In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

— Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Source: danseurs lemniscateslemniscates
I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.

— Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Source: harukimurakami Haruki Murakamiharukimurakami
Trying to impose order on something where there had never been any was a waste of effort.

— 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Source: murakamiquotes Haruki Murakami Quotesmurakamiquotes
And so she kept her chin pulled in, her back straight, and walked with firm steps as if following a perfectly straight line. But inside, where she could not be seen, she was confused. In places of which she was totally unaware, things about which she was totally unaware were happening one after another. Until a short time before, she had had the world in her hand, without disruptions or inconsistencies. But now it was falling apart.

— 1Q84 by Murakami Haruki
After all this, I won’t start to hate you.

— Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami Haruki Source: quievi Fuck the itinerary.quievi
We lived together for a while. Honestly, she didn’t move me as much as Yoshiko did, but I did love her. We really understood each other, and were always up-front with each other. She taught me about human beings—how beautiful they can be, the kind of faults they have.

— Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Murakami Haruki
I said goodbye to her and left. This was our final farewell. I knew it, and so did she. The last time I saw her, she was standing in the doorway, arms folded. She seemed about to say something, but didn’t. She didn’t have to say it out loud—I knew what she was going to say. I felt so empty.

— Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Murakami Haruki
It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go.

— The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami Haruki Source: ashwah spooky bat centralashwah
Young and impetuous, I guess you’d call me. Looking back on it now, though, I think I had a pretty fun life back then. Whether that was the right choice or not, if I had it to do over again, I’m pretty sure I would.

— Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Murakami Haruki