Quotes from Banana Yoshimoto

my mother disappeared from my life forever.

Con ng??i không khu?t ph?c trÆ°á»›c hoàn c?nh hay nh?ng th? lá»±c t? bên ngoài, mà s? thua cuá»™c b?t ??u t? chính bên trong.

I knew, vaguely, that just as the world contained forces that nurtured and strengthened and created things, there were also forces that diminished them. And that even though there were equal amounts of both, the latter could sometimes seem more powerful.

Me olvidé por un momento de que esa tristeza duraría mientras estuviese viva, de que nunca pasaría, y me dispuse a salir con él.

In qualunque famiglia ci sono problemi che visti dal di fuori sembrerebbero insuperabili. Eppure ogni giorno si mangia lo stesso, si fanno le pulizie, il tempo scorre senza troppi drammi, ci si abitua alle situazioni più assurde. In una famiglia c'è una promessa implicita, incomprensibile per gli altri, di restare uniti per quanto le cose possano farsi complicate

The sensation that my brain cells were multiplying was exhilarating.

En definitiva, ser querido es eso: que deseen tocarte, ser cariñosos contigo.

Il tempo che niente può fermare non scorre solo per piangere sulle cose perdute ma anche per ottenere un'infinità di momenti bellissimi, uno dopo l'altro. Ah, questo è un piccolo premio, pensai.

The intensity of a person unafraid of death, at the end of his rope.

Be sure to keep your tummy warm, try to relax, both your heart and your body, try not to get flustered. Live like a flower. You have that right.

You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.

I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful enough to take the weight off his heart, that heaviness that dragged him down, into the beyond, making him yearn to be at peace. My body sensed it. And my soul.

But if a person has never experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is.

It was only I who had forgotten how well we knew each other.

I felt powerless to stop the energy from rush- ing out of my body; it seemed to dissipate with a hissing sound into the darkness.

My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that's what it means to have been brought up well. Mom

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within, I thought.

Me basta con saber que la persona a la que quiero se encuentra en la misma coordenada que yo,que sus mañanas y sus noches coinciden con las mías, para que las tardes me parezcan más dulces cada día.

But I'm not free, I realized; I've been touched by Yuichi's soul. How much easier it would be to stay away forever.

This town breathes in all the universes that people in this city have in their heads

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. So I became a woman, and here I am.

That would really suit you, wouldn't it, to leave things undecided forever? But love is not a joke, it also means sharing someone else's pain.

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.

I was also learning that every single person in the world had been hurt by their family at some point. I wasn't special at all—some people dealt with it well, and some didn't, but that was the only difference, and either way, we were all nourished and cherished by our families, and at the same time limited and defined by them—that was what it meant to be human, I understood.