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 YOSHIMOTOWhy 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.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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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 sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.
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Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
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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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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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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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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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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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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.
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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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You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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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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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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