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 YOSHIMOTOThis is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
More Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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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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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).
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Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can’t make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don’t get back on track somehow, I’m dead, that’s the sense I get. There isn’t a single strong emotion inside me.
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Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.
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You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
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Over and over, we begin again.
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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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It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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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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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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