it’ll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words -the color of a completely closed-in night
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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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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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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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.
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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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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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Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.
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Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.
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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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