If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami · The source reads: “If you remember me, then I don't care if everybody else forgets.” · Miss Saeki to Kafka Tamura in the forest town, after "I want you to remember me"; the familiar form says everyone for everybody.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one.

Haruki Murakami · Toru Watanabe, looking back on the death of his friend Kizuki, in Jay Rubin's English translation; the passage goes on "No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it."

More Love Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.