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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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Me, when I’m utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody’s home, then I despise my own life – my birth, my upbringing, everything.
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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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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
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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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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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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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Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
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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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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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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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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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When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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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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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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