“People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.” — 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.… — 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 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
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we’re like ghosts, the two of us, even… — Banana Yoshimoto 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 Copy Share Image
“May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright… — 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
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
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while… — 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
“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
“Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I thought for a moment. Isn't it strange how we unconsciously search for something that will make us cry, only when we… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say… — 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
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“beyond that, I couldn’t say. There’s no point thinking about the future. That” — 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
