Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape,” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that hidden pull is there, but we go on living our lives, pretending we don’t. We keep our gazes fixed,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying.… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
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… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
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… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“… I was thinking, listlessly, is this what it means to be happy? But now I feel it in my gut. Why… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was afraid of seeing anything as absolute. I wanted to keep moving, like a stream, and I wanted to go… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
“weren't we all the same as children?" eiko asked. "all of us, destined to become beautiful brides in fluffy white dresses!" she… — banana yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
“I realized that from now on, my mom’s life and mine would have to be completely, unmistakably different. Nothing about us was… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“But if a person has never experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life;… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Until Eriko's death my relationship with Yuichi had been laughing and carefree, but under the surface it had been growing more and… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness… — 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 Image
“People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I don’t put any stock in whatever it is that happens inside my head.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
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 Image
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto 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 playing doesn’t… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“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 Image
