337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

El arrepentimiento nunca llega antes.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too – that’s just the way things work.

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume. Avvolta da quel tepore, finalmente libera dal peso che mi aveva oppresso fino a quel momento, la mia anima stava fluttuando nell’aria con grande gioia.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who’ve been through something traumatic.

The night glittered brilliantly then.

Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you...

Even if this night we were spending together and everything else was just going to disappear into the past, that was all right – and it seemed to me that I held this alrightness preciously in my hands, and that it was glittering there.