Quotes by : Banana Yoshimoto

Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

I didn't care whether I had gotten dressed, or what state my hair was in or anything– it didn't matter.....

We've done so much together, wherever I go and whatever I see, I think of you. Newborn babies; the pattern....

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since....

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone....

I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She....

But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where....

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once,....