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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
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
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
the BTK Killer (which to me sounds more like something you order from a drive-thru window).
— Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
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
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even moreit's sad, but that's the truth. — Banana Yoshimoto
Over and over, we begin again.
— Banana Yoshimoto
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.
— 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
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
For some reason I keep getting connected to men who have something to do with plants.
— Banana Yoshimoto
If you're always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.
— Banana Yoshimoto
It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.
— Banana Yoshimoto
And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...
— 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
Love is love. It doesn't matter what kind it is.
— Banana Yoshimoto
Maybe then our stopped time would move again." The
— 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
The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it's always fresh.
— 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
Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.
— 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
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
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
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
