black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Banana Yoshimoto

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
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Blue Eye Night
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
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Farewell Goodbye Sky
It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
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Felt Gorgeous Sadness
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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Believe Color People
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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Handle Memories Stills
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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Feelings Important Proud
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
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Bed Exist Nothing World
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
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.
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Enough Mind Tea
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
Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
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Adults Mean Ugly
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
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn’t have enough energy to do anything else.
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Culture Energy Thinking
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

Home Lonely Skins
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.
BANANA YOSHIMOTO

Emotion Flow Much Night Sense Winter

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

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

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