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.


Kitchen (ed. Grove Press, 2006) - ISBN: 9780802142443

Banana Yoshimoto Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...