“It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that’s what it means to have been brought up well.… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender... — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“With Lizard, I felt overwhelmed by the desire to touch her skin, to kiss her, hold her, make love to her,no matter… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I got up and sprinted into the ocean, chasing my father. I'm in love with the moment when the water switches from… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Even if this night we were spending together and everything else was just going to disappear into the past, that was all… — 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
