Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.
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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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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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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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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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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one’s life history is etched in the senses.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I’ve got in my hand and rub it into his face. That’s how much I like him.
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