Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind. — Banana Yoshimoto Eloquent Copy Share Image
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life. — Banana Yoshimoto Happiness Copy Share Image
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least… — Banana Yoshimoto Ache Copy Share Image
“These women lived their lives happily. They had been taught, probably by loving parents, not to exceed the boundaries of their happiness… — Banana Yoshimoto Bad thing 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 Time Copy Share Image
“fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences,… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“There are no rules here, except that you have to sit properly at the bar when you drink. People can tell me… — Banana Yoshimoto Freedom 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
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. — Banana Yoshimoto Alive Copy Share Image
“Al recordar su sonrisa, no sé por qué, me duele el corazón.” — Banana Yoshimoto Amor Copy Share Image
“The days I’d passed with my mom before she died were still there, it seemed, seared into the corners of my heart.… — banana yoshimoto Fiction Copy Share Image
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the… — Banana Yoshimoto Adventure Copy Share Image
She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know… — Banana Yoshimoto Handle Copy Share Image
It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether… — Banana Yoshimoto Bothered Copy Share Image
“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it” — Banana Yoshimoto Life Copy Share Image
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. — Banana Yoshimoto Inspirational 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
“When there’s a plus, there’s always a minus. If there’s a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just… — Banana Yoshimoto Darkness 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
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
“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 Making excuses 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
“I had the feeling that Nakajima was taking one aspect of me - the straightforward, easy-going part that emerged when I was… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself. — Banana Yoshimoto Feelings Copy Share Image
