Banana Yoshimoto - The Lake (2011)

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

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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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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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Of course, it's true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you're feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don't change. They existed, and that's all there is to 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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This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...

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

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

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

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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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