“People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.” — Banana Yoshimoto Beautiful Copy Share Image
“in this society, things you’d think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.” — Banana Yoshimoto Bad jokes Copy Share Image
“I don’t put any stock in whatever it is that happens inside my head.” — Banana Yoshimoto Happens 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
I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. — Banana Yoshimoto Feeling Copy Share Image
“Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.” — Banana Yoshimoto Football Copy Share Image
“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I” — Banana Yoshimoto Comfort Copy Share Image
“Things keep coming around and around in this world, it’s all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.” — Banana Yoshimoto Violently Copy Share Image
“Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live… — Banana Yoshimoto Relax Copy Share Image
“If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.” 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… — Banana Yoshimoto Dancing 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
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
“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 Love Copy Share Image
You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary… — Banana Yoshimoto Flashy 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 Care Copy Share Image
“I became part of the air that surrounded Sui, and breathed her incomprehensible sadness. I think that part of those feelings live… — Banana Yoshimoto Bad karma 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
“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for… — Banana Yoshimoto Feeling 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
The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman.… — Banana Yoshimoto Adam Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it’s because she spends all her time sleeping—she comes and goes just as she pleases in the world of her dreams,… — Banana Yoshimoto Dreams Copy Share Image
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Breeze 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
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to… — Banana Yoshimoto Body Copy Share Image
With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is… — Banana Yoshimoto Accepting 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 Awful Copy Share Image
“I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something… — Banana Yoshimoto Flowing river 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
From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying… — Banana Yoshimoto Bottom 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
“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
“these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape,” — Banana Yoshimoto Life 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… — Banana Yoshimoto Naked 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 Fake love 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 Fountain pen Copy Share Image
“Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don’t mean to.” — Banana Yoshimoto Acts of violence 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… — Banana Yoshimoto Blue Copy Share Image
