When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOAgain and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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Over and over, we begin again.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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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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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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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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it’ll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words -the color of a completely closed-in night
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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 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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I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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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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No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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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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Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by ‘their happiness’ is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That’s not a bad thing.
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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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