337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

I’ll wait until then – I won’t forget you. I don’t want things to end like this, only having known you during this strange time. But right now, I just can’t think about the future.

No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

When I’m dead worn out, in a reverie, I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen. Whether it’s cold and I’m all alone, or somebody’s there and it’s warm, I’ll stare death fearlessly in the eye. If it’s a kitchen, I’ll think, ‘How good.

My fury was lofty, pure, cool.

Maybe I had been waiting for this. Maybe all I had been hoping for was a bed in which to be able to stop thinking, just for a little while, about what happened before and what would happen in the future. I was too sad to be able to sleep in the same bed with anyone; that would only make the sadness worse.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

For waving good-bye, I thank you.

Here I am playing nicely with the world, trying my best to leave things the tiniest bit better than they were, trying to fly even a little bit higher – how annoying it would be to have to go along with this crap.

If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.