337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

Every time we hugged, I met words that were not words.

Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I’ve got in my hand and rub it into his face. That’s how much I like him.

If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we’re doing here is really love, I’d be so tremendously relieved that I’d probably kneel down at that person’s feet. And if it isn’t love, if it’s eventually going to end, I want to go on sleeping like this; I want to stop hearing the phone when he calls. Let me be alone again.

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 the truth.

People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they’ve been with – that it’s someone’s decision, either yours or theirs. But this really isn’t true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That’s all there is to it. Human willpower can’t change that – which means, if you look at it another way, that we might as well enjoy ourselves until that day arrives.

Hay cosas tan duras que dan ganas de apartar la vista. Ni siquiera el amor puede salvarte de todo.

When you’ve fallen in love, broken up, lost a love one, and start getting older, everything seems the same. I couldn’t tell what was good and what was bad, what was better and what was worse. I simply didn’t want to have any more bad memories. I wished that time could stop, and summer will never come to an end. I felt vulnerable.

I’m talking about the lie that says you have to live a proper life, or else you’ll be ruined. I worked so hard to be respectable, because I was afraid of what would happen.

If a person hasn’t ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is.