Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOTo the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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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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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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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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This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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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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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.
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It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
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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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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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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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