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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI 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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Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types — love where there’s an end in sight and love where there isn’t.
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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
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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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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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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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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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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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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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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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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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Everything 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.
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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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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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