“in this society, things you’d think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.” — Banana Yoshimoto Bad jokes Copy Share Image
“We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying.… — Banana Yoshimoto Dying 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 Ebb and flow Copy Share Image
“¡Que maravilla! Me basta con que él esté a mi lado; no necesito que sea mío. Todo el mundo disfruta recostándose bajo… — Banana Yoshimoto Amor 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
When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back… — Banana Yoshimoto Bigs 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 Books 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
“I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to… — Banana Yoshimoto Courage 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 Conviction Copy Share Image
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around… — Banana Yoshimoto Benefits Copy Share Image
“There’s someone I might be getting closer to, that’s all. But it’s not quite coming together yet. I think I’m not ready,… — Banana Yoshimoto Coming together 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 And love Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Because i can 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
Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking… — Banana Yoshimoto Another day 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
“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
“Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about… — Banana Yoshimoto Beauty Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that hidden pull is there, but we go on living our lives, pretending we don’t. We keep our gazes fixed,… — 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
“May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright… — Banana Yoshimoto Coffee 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
What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the… — Banana Yoshimoto Evening Copy Share Image
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself… — Banana Yoshimoto Different Copy Share Image
“He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either...some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait,… — Banana Yoshimoto Business Copy Share Image
“Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I… — Banana Yoshimoto Inspirational Copy Share Image
Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a… — Banana Yoshimoto Despair Copy Share Image
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your… — Banana Yoshimoto Apart Copy Share Image
“As long as it had remained a mystery, I could have dealt with it--no matter how enormous a mystery it became. Now… — Banana Yoshimoto Imagination 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 thought for a moment. Isn't it strange how we unconsciously search for something that will make us cry, only when we… — Banana Yoshimoto Thought Copy Share Image
I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat… — Banana Yoshimoto Believe 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 Quiet Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could… — Banana Yoshimoto Life 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 if a person has never experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life;… — Banana Yoshimoto Despair Copy Share Image
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would… — Banana Yoshimoto Destiny Copy Share Image
“Cuando crezca más y más, me pasarán cosas diferentes. Muchas veces me hundiré hasta el fondo. Muchas veces sufriré, muchas veces reapareceré.… — Banana Yoshimoto 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
