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This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

Banana Yoshimoto

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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Fate Mean Missing
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.
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Bad Comfort Place Placeness Thing
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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Ignorant People Way
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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Breeze Dream Ocean Sea
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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Blue Eye Night
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Inspirational Life Love
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
The night glittered brilliantly then.
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Brilliant Glitter Night
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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Heart Matter Mind
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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Defeated Feet Suffering
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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Important Sky Together
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
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.
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Days Long Missing Ordinary
No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
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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Dream Heart Morning

This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

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