337 Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and so they were precious, it was that feeling, and the sense of the miracle of this shared moment, here and now. Why were we so far apart, even when we are together? It was anice loneliness, like th sensation of washing your face with cold water.

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

Her power was the brilliance of her charm and it had brought her to where she was now. I had the feeling that neither her wife nor her son could diminish it. That quality must have condemned her to an ice-cold loneliness.

Un sorriso nel primo volto incontrato al mattino è un benvenuto al giorno che inizia.

Sooner or later people are definitely going to give up if you don't give them back as much as they're giving you.