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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

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
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Miracle Natural World
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn’t sleepy at all.
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Hurt Night Sleepy
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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Handle Memories Stills
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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Dream Heart Morning
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Dark Light Lonely
It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.
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Days Long Missing Ordinary
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
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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Defeated Feet Suffering
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Enough
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
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

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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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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