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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

Banana Yoshimoto

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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Bridges Differences Fighting
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want
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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Benefits Ratio World
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.
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Ignorant People Way
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
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
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Farewell Goodbye Sky
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
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Heart Matter Mind
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Back Happy Life Memories Shining
What was important wasn’t the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
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Important Sky Together
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
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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Adults Despair Mean
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

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