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Nutmeg is a former fashion designer who now works as a spiritual healer. She helps wealthy women who feel emptiness in their hearts find a way to experience happiness. She started this business after her husband was brutally and mysteriously murdered. Nutmeg recruits Toru to help her with her business after she notices the mysterious mark on his face. Nutmeg is kind to Toru, and the two of them become good friends for the time that they work together.
Nutmeg Quotes in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle quotes below are all either spoken by Nutmeg or refer to Nutmeg. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 3, Chapter 4
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Part of my consciousness is still there as an empty house. At the same time, I am still here, on this sofa, as me. I think, What should I do now? I can’t decide which one is reality. Little by little, the word ‘here’ seems to split in two inside me. I am here, but I am also here. Both seem equally real to me.
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Book 3, Chapter 27
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Whether by chance conjunction or not, the ‘wind-up bird’ was a powerful presence in Cinnamon’s story. The cry of this bird was audible only to certain special people, who were guided by it toward inescapable ruin.
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Book 3, Chapter 36
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It took me a while to absorb these facts. The images from the TV news I had seen in the hotel lobby were still too vividly burned into my brain—Noboru Wataya’s office in Akasaka, the police all over the place […]. Little by little, though, I was able to convince myself that what I had seen was news that existed only in the other world. I had not, in actuality, in this world, beaten Noboru Wataya with a baseball bat.
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Nutmeg Quotes in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle quotes below are all either spoken by Nutmeg or refer to Nutmeg. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 3, Chapter 4
Quotes
Part of my consciousness is still there as an empty house. At the same time, I am still here, on this sofa, as me. I think, What should I do now? I can’t decide which one is reality. Little by little, the word ‘here’ seems to split in two inside me. I am here, but I am also here. Both seem equally real to me.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 3, Chapter 27
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Whether by chance conjunction or not, the ‘wind-up bird’ was a powerful presence in Cinnamon’s story. The cry of this bird was audible only to certain special people, who were guided by it toward inescapable ruin.
Related Characters:
Related Symbols:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 3, Chapter 36
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It took me a while to absorb these facts. The images from the TV news I had seen in the hotel lobby were still too vividly burned into my brain—Noboru Wataya’s office in Akasaka, the police all over the place […]. Little by little, though, I was able to convince myself that what I had seen was news that existed only in the other world. I had not, in actuality, in this world, beaten Noboru Wataya with a baseball bat.
