Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. — Banana Yoshimoto Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I’ve traveled a long way today, I often think to myself.” — Banana Yoshimoto Long way Copy Share Image
“Al recordar su sonrisa, no sé por qué, me duele el corazón.” — Banana Yoshimoto Amor Copy Share Image
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. — Banana Yoshimoto Blackness Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender... — Banana Yoshimoto Love Copy Share Image
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 Handle Copy Share Image
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — Banana Yoshimoto Inspire Copy Share Image
“you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto Feeling Copy Share Image
“willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.” — Banana Yoshimoto Community Copy Share Image
“I thought for a moment. Isn't it strange how we unconsciously search for something that will make us cry, only when we… — Banana Yoshimoto Time Copy Share Image
“But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are… — Banana Yoshimoto Football Copy Share Image
What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the… — Banana Yoshimoto Evening Copy Share Image
I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes… — Banana Yoshimoto Ache Copy Share Image
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself… — Banana Yoshimoto Different Copy Share Image
Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends… — Banana Yoshimoto Birth Copy Share Image
“Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I… — Banana Yoshimoto Inspirational Copy Share Image
“He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either...some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait,… — Banana Yoshimoto Business Copy Share Image
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the… — Banana Yoshimoto Adventure Copy Share Image
“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for… — Banana Yoshimoto Reflection Copy Share Image
I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since… — Banana Yoshimoto Character Copy Share Image
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 Don't change 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 Conviction Copy Share Image
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 Air Copy Share Image
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Adults Copy Share Image
There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is… — Banana Yoshimoto Awful Copy Share Image
“Your love is different from mine. What I mean is, when you close your eyes, for that moment, the center of the… — Banana Yoshimoto Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“We've done so much together, wherever I go and whatever I see, I think of you. Newborn babies; the pattern on the… — Banana Yoshimoto Delicious food Copy Share Image
“ Life is a performance, I thought. Perthaps the word "illusion" would have meant more or less the same thing, but to… — Banana Yoshimoto Identity Copy Share Image
“From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying… — Banana Yoshimoto Life Copy Share Image
“That night, having wriggled down into my futon all alone, I found myself in the grips of a wrenching sadness. I was… — Banana Yoshimoto Pain Copy Share Image
“Just because things turned out badly in the end doesn’t mean that anything has changed in my relationship with my mother. Everything… — Banana Yoshimoto Holding hands Copy Share Image
“We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that… — Banana Yoshimoto Choice Copy Share Image
“It was only after my head started reeling and my body started weaving and I tumbled into bed that I'd hear that… — Banana Yoshimoto Kind words Copy Share Image
