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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Banana Yoshimoto

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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Knows Mean Way
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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Culture Energy Thinking
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Inspirational Life Love
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one’s life history is etched in the senses.
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Emotion Flow Sense Uncertain
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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Lying Needs Thinking
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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Home Lonely Skins
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
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Broken Kitchen Light
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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Loneliness Nice Water
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
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Hunger Laugh Lust
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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Listening Responsibility Way
It 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.
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Days Long Missing Ordinary
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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Dark Heart relief Sigh

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