Quotes from Banana Yoshimoto

cerchiamo di ridurre il tempo passato a guardare cose che non vogliamo guardare o fare cose che preferiremmo non fare. Limitiamo le ore trascorse inutilmente. .... Rallentiamo il ritmo, e prima di addormentarci ripensiamo a ognuna delle cose che abbiamo fatto.

I implored the gods: Please, let me live.

Escuchar las desgracias de la gente es como aceptar dinero. Las cosas jamás acaban ahí. Porque debes asumir la responsabilidad de haber oído lo que has oído.

I wan't ever truly lonely, but whenever I think abou you I get this feeling that I was least lonely when I was with you

Ese espacio que uno ocupa, siquiera por un breve periodo, y aunque antes o después todos los personajes deban desaparecer en los confines del tiempo, resplandece como algo sumamente valioso.

Cuando estás en el fondo del abismo, encuentras en él un consuelo especial que no se halla en ninguna otra parte.

At first my impatience would lead me to the brink of despair, but when I finally learned to correct my mistakes coolly, it was truly as if I had somehow reformed my own slapdash character.

Her hair rustled, brushing her shoulders. 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. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

Everyone lives the way she knows best.

Descubrí que el cuerpo es un mero recipiente en el momento en que el alma deja de mirarte

There's nothing as senseless as being harried at a simple do-what's-needed part-time job.

I'd broken up with someone I'd met at my pottery studio. It had been quite a major love affair. He was older and single, and I'd gotten caught up in it to the point that I'd even thought about marrying him. In the end we'd gone our separate ways, but I was still hung up on him.

Penso che non potrò dimenticare la bellezza del suo pianto. Ti faceva sentire che l'anima racchiude qualcosa di prezioso.

Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.

A man who can get taken in by a move like that will never change. I'm glad you broke up.

Pero ¿no están corriendo las lágrimas por mis mejillas y caen a goterones sobre mi pecho? Me sorprendió. Pensé que el funcionamiento de mi cuerpo se había estropeado. Igual que cuando una está muy borracha y las lágrimas van saliendo, una tras otra, sin parar, por algo que no tiene relación con una misma.

Quando eravamo abbracciati, conoscevo parole che non erano parole.

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.

Dù sao trong ?o v?ng c?a má»—i ng??i, ? má»™t nÆ¡i nào Ä'ó không th? vá»›i tá»›i, có má»™t hình dung lung linh mà ai cÅ©ng thá»±c sá»± thèm mu?n, lá»›n hÆ¡n c? ni?m hy v?ng, m?nh hÆ¡n c? ánh sáng, có tên là H?nh Phúc". (Há»' - Banana Yoshimoto)

Preparavo l'apertura, facevo le pulizie, sopportavo la fatica fisica e combattevo la stanchezza. Minimizzavo i pensieri legati al futuro. Mi sforzavo di risolvere le piccole seccature, pensavo alle cose positive, cercavo di non aspettarmi improbabili periodi di grande lavoro, risolvevo i problemi in modo realistico...

Cose che per qualcuno sono di nessuna importanza, per altri possono essere terribili come la morte.

What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.

Flowers and light, hope and excitement all suddenly seemed like things that were very distant from me, and I was trapped inside a deep, putrid, and bloody darkness.

The conversation we just had was like a glimpse of stars through a chink in cloudy sky.