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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

Banana Yoshimoto

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
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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Feelings Important Proud
Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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Dark Heart relief Sigh
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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Lying Needs Thinking
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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Culture Energy Thinking
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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Believe Dream Fear
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
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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Emotion Flow Much Night Sense Winter
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done
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Good Insomnia Long Night
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel

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