“Just because things turned out badly in the end doesn’t mean that anything has changed in my relationship with my mother. Everything… — Banana Yoshimoto Holding hands 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
“you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind. Nakajima” — Banana Yoshimoto Psychology 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
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
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
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. — Banana Yoshimoto Blackness Copy Share Image
“El mundo no existe sólo para mí. El porcentaje de cosas amargas que me sucedan no variará. Yo no puedo decidirlo” — Banana Yoshimoto Adversity-and-attitude Copy Share Image
“in order to grab on to those tiny profits people studiously adopt another perspective, keeping their true opinions to themselves, and no… — Banana Yoshimoto Middle ground 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 Creativity Copy Share Image
To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on… — Banana Yoshimoto Adults Copy Share Image
“beyond that, I couldn’t say. There’s no point thinking about the future. That” — Banana Yoshimoto Thinking about the future 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
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
“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 Making choices 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 Love Copy Share Image
“If people I don't care for are attracted to me, I accept it as the wages of beauty.” — Banana Yoshimoto Beauty 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
“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone… — Banana Yoshimoto Architecture 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 Love Copy Share Image
“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
“They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The” — Banana Yoshimoto Side by side Copy Share Image
