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Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying. — Banana Yoshimoto

She could warm up the air, and then gently blow it out, just like a lily. She smelled of a syrup made of boiled-down despair. — Banana Yoshimoto

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole. — Banana Yoshimoto

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed ... (p. 141). — Banana Yoshimoto

Looking out at the lake, drinking good tea. That's his only luxury.
And what an enormous luxury that was. — Banana Yoshimoto

willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours. — Banana Yoshimoto

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. — Banana Yoshimoto

The intensity of a person unafraid of death, at the end of his rope. — Banana Yoshimoto

Okay,' I said, and waving, we parted. The feeling traveled to some infinitely distant place and disappeared. — Banana Yoshimoto

beyond that, I couldn't say. There's no point thinking about the future. That — Banana Yoshimoto

If people I don't care for are attracted to me, I accept it as the wages of beauty. — Banana Yoshimoto

Why is it that everything I eat when I'm with you is so delicious?' I laughed. 'Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time? — Banana Yoshimoto

But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there. — Banana Yoshimoto

He was quiet in the way people are when they believe the world would get along just fine without them. — Banana Yoshimoto

these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape, — Banana Yoshimoto

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. — Banana Yoshimoto

I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again. (Kitchen, 103) — Banana Yoshimoto

Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to. — Banana Yoshimoto

For some reason I keep getting connected to men who have something to do with plants. — Banana Yoshimoto

Maybe then our stopped time would move again." The — Banana Yoshimoto

It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed. — Banana Yoshimoto

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors. — Banana Yoshimoto

Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? — Banana Yoshimoto

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more
it's sad, but that's the truth. — Banana Yoshimoto

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends. — Banana Yoshimoto

What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time. — Banana Yoshimoto

Over and over, we begin again. — Banana Yoshimoto

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. — Banana Yoshimoto

The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it's always fresh. — Banana Yoshimoto

Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is. — Banana Yoshimoto

If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up. — Banana Yoshimoto

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. — Banana Yoshimoto

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself. — Banana Yoshimoto

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else. — Banana Yoshimoto

Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top. — Banana Yoshimoto

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies. — Banana Yoshimoto

My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that's what it means to have been brought up well. Mom, — Banana Yoshimoto

A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness.
It's only natural, when two separate universes touch. — Banana Yoshimoto

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. — Banana Yoshimoto

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. — Banana Yoshimoto

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ... — Banana Yoshimoto

When my grandmother died, time died, too, in this apartment. — Banana Yoshimoto

Things keep coming around and around in this world, it's all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin. — Banana Yoshimoto

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic. — Banana Yoshimoto

When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong. — Banana Yoshimoto

I wanted to strip and dance naked in front of them, because maybe then I could have demolished the fake, slimy atmosphere they had created. — Banana Yoshimoto

I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache. — Banana Yoshimoto

If you're always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them. — Banana Yoshimoto

Be sure to keep your tummy war, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower. — Banana Yoshimoto

It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality ... — Banana Yoshimoto

I wished my heart would break and get it over with. — Banana Yoshimoto

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water. — Banana Yoshimoto

Now only the kitchen and I are left. It's just a little nicer than being all alone. — Banana Yoshimoto

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto

This is what it means to be loved ... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender ... — Banana Yoshimoto

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me. — Banana Yoshimoto

I can't imagine a life without a story. — Banana Yoshimoto

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses. — Banana Yoshimoto

As well as the way he always said Itadakimasu, quietly, before he started eating. — Banana Yoshimoto

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha, — Banana Yoshimoto

If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved ... — Banana Yoshimoto

It was as if his tears had nowhere to go, they were meant for god alone. — Banana Yoshimoto

Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that. — Banana Yoshimoto

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle. — Banana Yoshimoto

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you ... — Banana Yoshimoto

in this society, things you'd think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time. — Banana Yoshimoto

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — Banana Yoshimoto

All I wanted was to get through this as quickly as possible, to see the day when memories be just memories. — Banana Yoshimoto

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within. — Banana Yoshimoto

Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki — Nancy Pearl

I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom — Banana Yoshimoto

Nakajima's presence didn't put any pressure on me, either. Quite the opposite: there was a warmth in the core of my chest when he was around. — Banana Yoshimoto

People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future. — Banana Yoshimoto

They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The — Banana Yoshimoto

The night glittered brilliantly then. — Banana Yoshimoto

Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower. You have that right. — Banana Yoshimoto

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age. — Banana Yoshimoto

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. — Banana Yoshimoto

I was kind of tired, I guess, of knowing people are flesh. Flesh and water. — Banana Yoshimoto

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. — Banana Yoshimoto

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better. — Banana Yoshimoto

I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it. — Banana Yoshimoto

In this world there is no place for sadness. No place; not one. — Banana Yoshimoto

I don't put any stock in whatever it is that happens inside my head. — Banana Yoshimoto

I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all. — Banana Yoshimoto

My fury was lofty, pure, cool. — Banana Yoshimoto

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world. — Banana Yoshimoto

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness. — Banana Yoshimoto

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too - that's just the way things work. — Banana Yoshimoto

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free. — Banana Yoshimoto