No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOIn 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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I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
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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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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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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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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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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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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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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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Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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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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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you-you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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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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