This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOAgain and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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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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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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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn’t up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
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Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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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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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Over and over, we begin again.
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I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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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.
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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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