Sputnik Sweetheart

""Don't you just love it?" she said. "Every day you stand on top of a mountain, make a 360-degree sweep, checking to see if there're any fires. And that's it. You're done for the day. The rest of the time you can read, write, whatever you want. At night scruffy bears hang around your cabin. That's the life! Compared with that, studying literature in college is like chomping down on the bitter end of a cucumber."
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"Sumire was a hopeless romantic, set in her ways - a bit innocent, to put a nice spin on it. Start her talking, and she'd go on nonstop, but if she was with someone she didn't get along with - most people in the world, in other words - she barely opened her mouth. She smoked too much, and you could count on her to lose her ticket every time she rode the train. She'd get so engrossed in her thoughts at times that she'd forget to eat, and she was as thin as one of those war orphans in an old Italian movie - like a stick with eyes."

Well, that's just an introduction to one of the most brilliant books I just read-Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

PS: I can fill pages just writing about this book. That's how much I loved it and thats how much I could relate to it. However, one thing that has been my biggest and most personal takeaway from this book is the "ability" to write for oneself and thats exactly what I am gonna do now.. :)