“If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.” I” — Banana Yoshimoto 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
Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most… — Banana Yoshimoto Bridges 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
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up. — Banana Yoshimoto Ends Copy Share Image
“Y me daba la sensación de que, aunque lo contemplara desde cierta distancia, observar el mar siempre me enseñaba alguna cosa. Puede… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world. — Banana Yoshimoto Miracle Copy Share Image
“want to be overwhelmed, too, while I’m still not too old. I want to be blown away by greatness. Because I’ve started… — Banana Yoshimoto Better person 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 Blackness 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 Life 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
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I… — Banana Yoshimoto Hurt 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 Copy Share Image
“The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it’s always fresh.” — Banana Yoshimoto Different faces 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
“Maybe I was afraid of seeing anything as absolute. I wanted to keep moving, like a stream, and I wanted to go… — Banana Yoshimoto Closeness Copy Share Image
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like… — Banana Yoshimoto Darling Copy Share Image
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s… — Banana Yoshimoto Broken 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
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your… — Banana Yoshimoto Cold 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
“It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.” — Banana Yoshimoto Love 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
“willingness to give in is rampant in this society of ours.” — Banana Yoshimoto Community Copy Share Image
