337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

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.

But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.

Yo soy mi propio hogar, mi lugar es este en el que me encuentro y nada puede impedirlo, como cuando ese fabuloso azul antes del alba da paso rápidamente a un amanecer de una belleza distinta.

D'un tratto capii quanto fosse lontano il passato. Anche più della morte, anche più della distanza incolmabile tra persona e persona.

Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to recapture that feeling—life wasn’t so easy anymore. Small things pricked my heart. In those early days, I lived in a world of overwhelming sensations; it was like I had just fallen out of love.

Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und völlig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da draußen doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg die Vergangenheit ist. Weiter als der Tod, ja weiter sogar als die unüberbrückbare Distanz, die zwischen zwei Menschen besteht.

Interagire poco con le altre persone, lasciarmi coinvolgere il meno possibile, dedicarmi a ciò che mi piaceva e, magari, anche rendermi utile un minimo.

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