Banana Yoshimoto

“Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“El mundo no existe sólo para mí. El porcentaje de cosas amargas que me sucedan no variará. Yo no puedo decidirlo”

— Banana Yoshimoto

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know…

— Banana Yoshimoto

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

— Banana Yoshimoto

“you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

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

— Banana Yoshimoto

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

— Banana Yoshimoto

“¡Que maravilla! Me basta con que él esté a mi lado; no necesito que sea mío. Todo el mundo disfruta recostándose bajo…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one's life history is etched in the senses. And things…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being—and that's very sad. If…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world.…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying.…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“No, I just wanted to recapture the incredibly vivid love we'd had at first- the love I'd shared with the tall man…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about…

— Banana Yoshimoto

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“There are no rules here, except that you have to sit properly at the bar when you drink. People can tell me…

— Banana Yoshimoto

On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what…

— Banana Yoshimoto

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is…

— Banana Yoshimoto

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,…

— Banana Yoshimoto

At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the…

— Banana Yoshimoto

People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Al recordar su sonrisa, no sé por qué, me duele el corazón.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...

— Banana Yoshimoto

“And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it”

— Banana Yoshimoto

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I don’t put any stock in whatever it is that happens inside my head.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

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

— Banana Yoshimoto

“For some reason I keep getting connected to men who have something to do with plants.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Things keep coming around and around in this world, it’s all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.” I”

— Banana Yoshimoto

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

— Banana Yoshimoto

“in this society, things you’d think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.”

— Banana Yoshimoto