Quotes from Banana Yoshimoto

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

There was one thing that always disturbed me profoundly. Sometimes, no matter how intently I would be staring at him, I would have the feeling that Hitoshi wasn't there.

Creo que, a la larga, ir con la verdad por delante es lo que mejores resultados da.

Risate fatte di niente e divise con qualcuno.

Forse era solo il breve sogno di un'altra me stessa che non aveva più nessuna possibilità di vivere in questo mondo.

Pensai: ecco, se dopo la morte il mio spirito tornasse sulla terra in una sera d'estate, è così che il mondo mi apparirebbe.

I laughed. "Could it be that you're satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?" "No way, no way, no way!" he said, laughing. "It must be because we're family.

Anche in mezzo a una folla, gli spiriti affini riescono a comunicare.

??????????????????????? Somos humanos. Sentir dolor es algo desagradable para cualquiera.

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.

Nessuno degli amori che avevo avuto fino ad allora aveva mai cancellato in questo modo il paesaggio.

the loss of one ordinary worker is enough to send emotions rippling through the entire staff of a company. And the traces of that emotion would never disappear.

Her eyes were too knowing and serene; the expression on her face hinted that she had tasted deeply of the sorrows and joys of this world.

I silently implored: May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright place, drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit. Words, too explicit, always cast a shadow over that faint glow. Outside, night had come. The indigo-colored air was growing colder.

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they can change their colours.

Non c'è nessuno che riesce a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.

I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

I realized that I'd never appreciated how peaceful and precious my life had been before.

Fürchte die Zeit nicht, geh einfach immer weiter. So weit, bis du das Gefühl hast, angekommen zu sein.

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one's life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable thing, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.

I nostri destini si erano separati, e ognuno di noi era diventata grande seguendo la sua strada. Ormai tornare indietro era impossibile. I miei erano semplici rimpianti, che valevano meno di zero, un inutile spreco si per lei che per me, perciò cercai di ricacciarli via.

The two of us may be in the epicenter of death, but I was hoping to spare you this misery. It could be like this for as long as we stay together.

The whole time I was with him there was that feeling of ephemerality, uncertainty. If that was a premonition of what was to come, what a sorrowful one it was.

Qui il tempo non esiste. È come se fossimo separati dal resto del mondo. Ci siamo soltanto lui e io, fuori dal tempo e senza età. Il tempo si è fermato e io guardo Nakajima senza desiderare nulla in particolare. Sento che questa è la felicità.