Quotes from Banana Yoshimoto

Tutto intorno a me era come un anello d'amore, innumerevoli anelli, tanto da sembrare di essere al centro di un arcobaleno. Qualcosa di grande mi avrebbe protetto, ovunque mi fossi trovata e in qualsiasi momento, e se anche la superbia me l'avesse fatto dimenticare, se la sensazione di stare vivendo da sola mi avesse fatto agire con imprudenza, quel qualcosa lo avrebbe accettato e accolto.

Les mots sont toujours trop abrupts, ils éteignent ce qu'il y a de plus précieux dans ces fragiles étincelles.

They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The

I was crying for having been left behind in the night, paralyzed by loneliness.

Shintani-kun often brought a book to read while he waited, but he'd close it as soon as his food arrived. I liked that too. As well as the way he always said Itadaki-masu, quietly, before he started eating. Maybe I was already in love.

The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it's always fresh.

And it's true, I thought, interesting things do happen, even in the midst of the blackest nights. And when you take a spill, you can always rise up from it with something good in your hand.

I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I

Es war mir unmöglich, die wahre Bedeutung dieser Melancholie zu begreifen, die seine Persönlichkeit prägte und deren Schattenspiel mich faszinierte.

But that's only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn't mean their hearts aren't in it.

Sul campo di battaglia della memoria giacevano le spoglie di tutto quanto si era piegato a forze invisibili, dei pensieri di ciò che era svanito lasciando soltanto le emozioni dietro di sè. L'avrei attraversato giorno dopo giorno, imprimendo le orme dei miei passi come si offrono fiori.

want to be overwhelmed, too, while I'm still not too old. I want to be blown away by greatness. Because I've started wanting to become a better person, now, even just a little bit better.

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.

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.

Las palabras son siempre demasiado explicítas y apagan del todo el valor de una luz tenue como aquélla.

I started out thinking I'd just have to look the part to get by, and before I knew it the poison had seeped in and changed me inside.

When we start something new, at first it is very muddy, and clouded. "But soon, it becomes a clear stream, whose flow conducts itself quietly, through spontaneous movements.

Ognuno di noi pensa di avere molte strade e di potere scegliere da sé. Ma forse sarebbe stato più esatto dire che sogna il momento di scegliere. Anche per me è stato così. Ma ora lo so. Lo so con tanta chiarezza da poterlo mettere in parole. La strada è sempre decisa, non però in senso fatalistico. Sono il nostro continuo respirare, gli sguardi, i giorni che si succedono a deciderla naturalmente.

That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our heads they records that feelings we had when we read the book, and it stays with us forever.

Nothing could take away the sights that my eyes had seen, that my mind remembered, or that I lived in the very cells that made up my body. Take that, time, I thought, and squeezed my hand into a fist.

Era proprio vero che gli amici dei disgraziati sono dei disgraziati, mentre chi piace a chi ci piace di solito è una persona a posto. Una regola che quando fa eccezione genera sempre pasticci.

Che creatura triste, l'essere umano, pensai. Non c'è nessuno che riesca a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.

That's what it's like when you're creating things. On the one hand, it really seems like you're keeping it all moving on your own, and you can tell yourself that you've got inspiration raining down on you, but ultimately you can't make anything happen on your own. I

Lo único que he tenido claro desde el principio es que este amor se sostiene en la soledad. Entre tinieblas desiertas que parecen brilla, yacemos los dos, mudos, sin lograr sustraernos al hechizo.