Quotes from Banana Yoshimoto

Certo, osserviamo tutti il mondo da dentro una scatola, e se fossimo dentro a un'altra la penseremmo diversamente. Ma visto che è in questa che siamo, possiamo solo continuare a vivere considerandola la migliore in assoluto, pur dubitandone di tanto in tanto.

Maria, báu v?t c?a ông! T?m bi?t cháu. Hãy yêu quý bà, b? và m?, hãy tr? thành má»™t cô gái tuy?t v?i ?? không x?u h? vá»›i cái tên ??c M?. Ryuzo

Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.

Floating in a dream, I watched her walk away. That she had come to me at the end of a long night of misery made me want to cry tears of joy. I wanted to tell her: "How happy I am that you came to me like an apparition in that bluish mist. Now everything around me will be a little bit better when I wake up." At last I was able to fall asleep.

Il mondo è come un palloncino pieno di cose che non si vedono.

When there's a plus, there's always a minus. If there's a powerful light, the darkness that is its opposite will be just as strong.

I wondered whether I was crying because I was sad, or because I had just been released from my sadness.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. That is what makes the life I have now possible.

No huir de la vida cotidiana sino transformar la totalidad de mis vivencias en una energía distinta, convertirlas en una parte de mí.

Dream kitchens. I will have countless ones, in my heart or in reality. Or in my travels. Alone, with a crowd of people, with one other person—in all the many places I will live. I know that there will be so many more.

Our lives may be warped, but we live them all the same. One day to the next.

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

That turned me into a kind of patchy guy. But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there. An that something is always greater than these emotions of mine.

Pero mi vida existe, con toda certeza. Deformada, exhausta, débil, llena de complejos de culpa, pero existe. Y esto es algo maravilloso que, en cualquier momento, sobrepasa mis emociones

Growth and the overcoming of obstacles are inscribed on a person's soul.

Per quanto uno possa invecchiare, l'amore è qualcosa che nel momento in cui te ne rendi conto, ormai lo stai già vivendo. Ce ne sono di due tipi; quelli di cui si riesce a vedere la fine e quelli di cui non è possibile. Siamo soltanto noi stessi che possiamo dire di quale dei due si tratti. Il fatto che non si riesca a vedere la fine, è il segno che si tratta di qualcosa di enorme.

I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying.

When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own?

Suspended in the dim light before the window overlooking the magnificent tenth-floor view, the plants breathed softly, resting. By now the rain had stopped, and the atmosphere, sparkling, replete with moisture, refracted the glittering night splendidly.

Davanti alla natura sentivo quello che provavo dopo avere fatto del buon sesso. Trascinata dalla sua energia incommensurabile, intravedevo qua e là delle forme sensuali, quasi celate: i boccioli cilindrici dei fiori di ciliegio, le linee rette delle foglie di giunco, le spirali dei mulinelli che si formavano nell'acqua attorno ai sassi. La sola vista di ciò bastava a farti provare un piacere fisico.

but 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.

And then, suddenly, time was flowing differently than usual. It didn't turn back, or even pause. Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.

I had hear people say that things like this happen between people in love, but I myself didn't know that such emptiness really existed.

The night was so deathly silent that I felt I could hear the sound of the stars moving across the heavens.