Quotes from Banana Yoshimoto

Por qué estando juntos, nos encontrábamos tan lejos?

Ahora estas en el peor momento. Puede que sea más duro que la muerte. Pero puede que no haya otro peor. Porque los limites de una persona no camban. Quizá te vuelvas a enfermar y puede que te azote de nuevo un resfriado como este, pero si eres fuerte no volverás a sufrir en toda tu vida. Las cosas son así. Puedes pensar que seria un asco que volvería a ocurrir, pero ¿no crees que sería mejor hacerte a la idea de que las cosas son así?

Which is better? Who can say? Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I meant by "their happiness" is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone.

Day had turned to night, and night was passing in the same way all around the world. Now I felt really alone, at the bottom of a deep loneliness that no one could touch.

Dev'esserci un posto dove non c'è distinzione tra vero e falso, dove le persone come ce le immaginiamo e come sono realmente vivono fianco a fianco. E' quella l'unica verità. Una verità che non sarà mai possibile esprimere a parole. "Another World

After I hung up, the quiet of the room took shape and pressed in on me. The room was soon full of the pale blue of early dawn.

I knew it: the glittering crystal of all the good times we'd had, which had been sleeping in the depths of memory, was awakening and would keep us going. Like a blast of fresh wind, the rich perfumed breath of those days returned to my soul.

pensé en silencio.

I accidentally skipped Sotaro.

After this you and I may end up seeing nothing but suffering, difficulty, and ugliness, but only if you'll agree to it, I want for us to go on to more difficult places, happier places, wherever it comes, together.

Did anyone ever imagine, back in the old days, that eventually a day would come when people and their brains would each die a separate death?

My dad never meant to die and leave us, and my mother didn't really want to hurt me, and if I'd had my way we'd all have lived together as a family for as long as we wanted.

Una specie di reazione chimica su cui non ho nessun controllo. Posso solo stare a guardare. Entra in circolazione con il sangue e in meno di due ore ha preso possesso di me. L'attesa invade completamente l'atmosfera dell'appartamento. Sono ricoperta da una membrana in cui né televisione, né telefonate di amici, né bagni caldi né libri possono fare breccia. Non riesco a vedere più niente. I pensieri più assurdi mi possiedono, come spiriti maligni.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more—it

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening. My

Nunca lo he considerado así, pero ahora tengo la impresión de que era inevitable que me ocurriera. Me da la sensación de que, por casualidades de la vida, hilos distantes se unieron de repente y me arrastraron hacia esa situación. Porque yo no pretendía nada en particular, no sentía insatisfecha, y tampoco buscaba un cambio.

L'unica cosa di cui ho paura è il passare del tempo, il ramo del salice accarezzato dal sole che un attimo dopo è scosso da un tifone, il ciliegio in fiore che perde tutti i suoi petali.

More family memories.

I guess even with the color ,their loneliness still shines through

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.