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Literature · Reflection

HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ A FEELING OF PAIN

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”

Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun Painting by Constance Marie Charpentier Melancholy, 1801

1 June 2012

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