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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

Over and over, we begin again.
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Bare Over Tree
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one’s life history is etched in the senses.
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Emotion Flow Sense Uncertain
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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Fate Mean Missing
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
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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Alive Matter Want
No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.
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Levels Limits Real
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.
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Benefits Ratio World
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
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
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
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
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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Beautiful Heart Sky
Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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Knows Mean Way
Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I’ve got in my hand and rub it into his face. That’s how much I like him.
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Eye Hand Ice Cream

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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