“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
“It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.” — Banana Yoshimoto Love Copy Share Image
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. — Banana Yoshimoto Again and again Copy Share Image
“I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again. (Kitchen, 103)” — Banana Yoshimoto Another day Copy Share Image
“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I” — Banana Yoshimoto Comfort Copy Share Image
People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within. — Banana Yoshimoto Defeat Copy Share Image
“Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.” — Banana Yoshimoto Football 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 Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of… — Banana Yoshimoto Annihilation 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
“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 First time Copy Share Image
As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and… — Banana Yoshimoto Bottom Copy Share Image
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I… — Banana Yoshimoto Happy 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
“Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to… — Banana Yoshimoto Raised 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 Dream 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
“She walks away as if she were going to disappear. I wonder if I’ll ever see her again." I turned and saw… — Banana Yoshimoto Looked Like 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
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
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away,… — Banana Yoshimoto Adults 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
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
“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
“ 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
“Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.” — Banana Yoshimoto Death Copy Share Image
“you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.” — Banana Yoshimoto Face 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
“willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.” — Banana Yoshimoto Community Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender... — Banana Yoshimoto Love Copy Share Image
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. — Banana Yoshimoto Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I don’t put any stock in whatever it is that happens inside my head.” — Banana Yoshimoto Happens Copy Share Image
“I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom” — Banana Yoshimoto Flower 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
“For some reason I keep getting connected to men who have something to do with plants.” — Banana Yoshimoto Connected 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
“People look so beautiful when their expressions show that they know they have a future.” — Banana Yoshimoto Beautiful Copy Share Image
I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else. — Banana Yoshimoto Culture Copy Share Image
