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People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.

    Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night. Download This Image

    In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me. Download This Image

    Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3). Download This Image

    The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - The night glittered brilliantly then. Download This Image

    The night glittered brilliantly then.

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    Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn’t grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland. Download This Image

    I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn’t grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache. Download This Image

    It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed. Download This Image

    As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling. Download This Image

    I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Download This Image

    Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you’re all equally sure that you’re at the beginning of something good. That’s how it is when you meet people you’re going to be with for a long time. Download This Image

    People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you’re all equally sure that you’re at the beginning of something good. That’s how it is when you meet people you’re going to be with for a long time.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO