Banana Yoshimoto Short Quotes

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Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…

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It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

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I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

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When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

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No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

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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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If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

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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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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

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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.

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No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

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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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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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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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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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Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...

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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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Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

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I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

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Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it's sad, but that's the truth.

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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

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Why is it that everything I eat when I'm with you is so delicious?' I laughed. 'Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

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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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Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.

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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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You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It's not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.

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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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When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

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