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  • Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed. Download This Image
  • Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
  • Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
  • Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
  • Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
  • Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
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As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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). Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you’ll never make it to the top. Download This Image

    Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you’ll never make it to the top.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness. Download This Image

    It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling. Download This Image

    I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Her eyes were those of someone who’s just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push. Download This Image

    Her eyes were those of someone who’s just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night. Download This Image

    In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO