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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.

Banana Yoshimoto

The night glittered brilliantly then.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Brilliant Glitter Night
I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Beautiful Crazy Flames
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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Fate Mean Missing
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn’t like it, but it made it easier to go on.
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Adults Despair Mean
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you-you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Heart Night Stars
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
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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Giving Light Nice
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
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Heart Light People
I never tell my boyfriend that I’m busy when I’m not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don’t agree with me. So it’s always okay, it’s always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
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Boyfriend Men Technique
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
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
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.
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Believe Color People
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
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Guilt Twist 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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