“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it” — Banana Yoshimoto Goodness 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 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
“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone… — Banana Yoshimoto Apartment 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
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
There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is… — Banana Yoshimoto Awful Copy Share Image
On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what… — Banana Yoshimoto Air Copy Share Image
Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its… — Banana Yoshimoto Arms Copy Share Image
I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just… — Banana Yoshimoto Agree Copy Share Image
“Until Eriko's death my relationship with Yuichi had been laughing and carefree, but under the surface it had been growing more and… — Banana Yoshimoto Daily life 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
Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no… — Banana Yoshimoto Believe Copy Share Image
“A lover should die after a long lifetime. I lost Hitoshi at the age of twenty, and I suffered from it so… — Banana Yoshimoto Died Soul 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
“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
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
“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
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
Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand… — Banana Yoshimoto Cream Copy Share Image
“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful… — Banana Yoshimoto Depression 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
“You don’t necessarily have to want to become an adult; it happens as a matter of course, as you go, making choices.… — Banana Yoshimoto Adolescence 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 Defeated Copy Share Image
Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends… — Banana Yoshimoto Birth 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
Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible… — Banana Yoshimoto Bad thing 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 Psychology Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of… — Banana Yoshimoto Bustle Copy Share Image
“No recuerdo si esto me había ocurrido con anterioridad, pero cuando me enfrenté a las tinieblas de mi corazón, cuando me sentí… — Banana Yoshimoto Amor Copy Share Image
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when… — Banana Yoshimoto Breathe 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 Amor 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
