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

Banana Yoshimoto

Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Back Happy Life Memories Shining
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
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
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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Heart Night Stars
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
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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Ignorant People Way
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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Breeze Dream Ocean Sea
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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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Guilt Twist Uncertain
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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Feet Rocks Suffering
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.
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Loneliness Nice Water
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
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Feelings Frustrated Littles
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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Believe Color People
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing

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