Quotes by : Banana Yoshimoto

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

I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful....

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

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.....

The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original....

I’ll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something....

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

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short,....

To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation,....