“We came into this world so that we could meet. We didn’t realize it ourselves, but that was the purpose of us coming here. We faced all kinds of complications - things that didn’t make sense, things that defied explanation. Weird things, gory things, sad things. And sometimes, even beautiful things. We were asked to make a vow, and we did. We were forced to go through hard times, and we made it.”

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.”

- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

I thought, the first time I read it, it was ass-backwards.  But, where things are not logical, in life - where they are emotional - this equation makes perfect sense.