The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free. — 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
There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind. — 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
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 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
