337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

I didn’t care whether I had gotten dressed, or what state my hair was in or anything– it didn’t matter. I felt close to him, and I’d come to regard him as just another part of the scenery.

Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn’t what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.

It helps to fight authority with authority.

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity.

As long as it had remained a mystery, I could have dealt with it – no matter how enormous a mystery it became. Now that matters had gotten more specific, my imagination began supplying smells and textures.

People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

I wanted to strip and dance naked in front of them, because maybe then I could have demolished the fake, slimy atmosphere they had created.