“Things keep coming around and around in this world, it’s all crammed violently together, two parts of the same skin.” — 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 Awful 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
“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
“With Lizard, I felt overwhelmed by the desire to touch her skin, to kiss her, hold her, make love to her,no matter… — Banana Yoshimoto Love 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
“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
“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is… — Banana Yoshimoto Heartbreak 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 Reflection 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 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
“May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright… — Banana Yoshimoto Hot tea Copy Share Image
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you... — Banana Yoshimoto Higher 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
“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
“ 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
“these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape,” — Banana Yoshimoto Life 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
“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
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic. — Banana Yoshimoto Deals 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
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
“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
