If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOThe ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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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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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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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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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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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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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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This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
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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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The night glittered brilliantly then.
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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 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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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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