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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOEverything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more–it’s sad, but that’s the truth.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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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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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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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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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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It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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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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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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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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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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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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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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