Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
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… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn’t… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don’t get slimy at night because… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“I wanted to strip and dance naked in front of them, because maybe then I could have demolished the fake, slimy atmosphere they had… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“And usually, when it’s all over, I find that everything has come together surprisingly well. When that happens, I feel like I’ve been dancing,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“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… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
“Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being—and that's very sad. If you're not… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share
