No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — 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
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
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s… — 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
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
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just… — 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
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
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
