“I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they’re dying it keeps them from… — Banana Yoshimoto Books 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
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there. — Banana Yoshimoto Exhausting Copy Share Image
“When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. But soon, it becomes a clean stream, whose flows… — Banana Yoshimoto River Copy Share Image
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's… — Banana Yoshimoto Awful Copy Share Image
“I got up and sprinted into the ocean, chasing my father. I'm in love with the moment when the water switches from… — Banana Yoshimoto Chasing Copy Share Image
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we… — Banana Yoshimoto Choice 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
“To all the readers who do not know me personally, who were kind enough to take the trouble to read my small… — Banana Yoshimoto Books Copy Share Image
Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and… — Banana Yoshimoto All alone 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
“There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things… — Banana Yoshimoto Cold water 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
For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds… — Banana Yoshimoto All kinds Copy Share Image
“That’s what it’s like when you’re creating things. On the one hand, it really seems like you’re keeping it all moving on… — Banana Yoshimoto Creating 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 if this night we were spending together and everything else was just going to disappear into the past, that was all… — Banana Yoshimoto Glittering Copy Share Image
“If I’d known things would end this way, we could have gone and done all that stuff instead of making excuses about… — Banana Yoshimoto Excuses Copy Share Image
“I realized that from now on, my mom’s life and mine would have to be completely, unmistakably different. Nothing about us was… — Banana Yoshimoto Different times 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
“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
“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
“I had the feeling that Nakajima was taking one aspect of me - the straightforward, easy-going part that emerged when I was… — Banana Yoshimoto Feeling 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
So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of… — Banana Yoshimoto Children 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
“But even in that very brief period of time I was made abundantly aware of the extent to which various things inside… — Banana Yoshimoto Guts 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
