337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

With a cold” – she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little – “now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won’t be. For the rest of your life. That’s how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won’t hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life.” With that she looked up at me, smiling.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind.

Neither of us realized what was happening. That simply by keeping an eye on each other, without giving it any thought, just by noticing the sound of a certain window sliding open, we were already starting to fall in love.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Il cuore di ognuno di noi stava cercando di accompagnare in modo tranquillo la vita di mia sorella che se ne andava. O meglio, si stava avvicinando a malincuore in quella direzione. Procedeva con sicurezza su quella strada, tranquillamente, come quando l’autunno avanza cedendo il passo all’inverno.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

It was as if his tears had nowhere to go, they were meant for god alone.

I have these two different images of her etched into my memory: one as this idealized mother, and the other as a sort of pressure weighing down on me – obsessive, feminine love.

What was important wasn’t the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.