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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

No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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Dark Heart relief Sigh
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in sight and love where there isn’t.
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Happen Love Sight Two Work
The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
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Beautiful Heart Sky
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
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Alive Matter Want
When someone tells you something big, it’s like you’re taking money from them, and there’s no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
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Listening Responsibility Way
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.
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Handle Memories Stills
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Inspirational Life Love
Her eyes were those of someone who’s just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.
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Believe Dream Fear
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
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Feelings Frustrated Littles
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.
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Long Tired Voice
You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.
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Giving Light Nice
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing

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