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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

Banana Yoshimoto

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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Beautiful Heart Sky
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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Handle Memories Stills
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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Feelings Important Proud
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn’t sleepy at all.
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Hurt Night Sleepy
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
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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Long Tired Voice
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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Breeze Dream Ocean Sea
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you’re all equally sure that you’re at the beginning of something good. That’s how it is when you meet people you’re going to be with for a long time.
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Long People Talking
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.
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Levels Limits Real
I never tell my boyfriend that I’m busy when I’m not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don’t agree with me. So it’s always okay, it’s always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
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Boyfriend Men Technique
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you-you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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Heart Night Stars
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
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Guilt Twist Uncertain

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