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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOI should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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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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Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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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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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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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 that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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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.
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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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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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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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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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