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A review by amandarose529
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
4.75
wistful and reflective, on friendship and growing up and introspection
“And in that moment, he was finally able to accept at all. And the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood. One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There’s no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
“And in that moment, he was finally able to accept at all. And the deepest recesses of his soul, Tsukuru Tazaki understood. One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There’s no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”