The night glittered brilliantly then.
BANANA YOSHIMOTOGood tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.
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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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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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I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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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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No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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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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