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Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Download This Image

    Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things. Download This Image

    It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that Download This Image

    Inching one’s way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can’t take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

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

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
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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.

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

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream. Download This Image

    Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

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

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

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
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    Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

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

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Banana Yoshimoto Quote - Me, when I’m utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody’s home, then I despise my own life – my birth, my upbringing, everything. Download This Image

    Me, when I’m utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody’s home, then I despise my own life – my birth, my upbringing, everything.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO
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    The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

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    The night glittered brilliantly then.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    BANANA YOSHIMOTO