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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOShe 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.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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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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Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated – defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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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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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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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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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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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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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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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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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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