We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. …
Silence and nothingness, as always, were my constant companions. I was quite used to them by now, since they’d become a part of me. Silence and nothingness…take them away and there’d be nothing else to say about my life.
— The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Page 112)