In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOIt occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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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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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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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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To 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.
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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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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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Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated – defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
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I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn’t grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.
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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
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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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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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