She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle. Banana Yoshimoto More Quotes by Banana Yoshimoto More Quotes From Banana Yoshimoto It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world. Banana Yoshimoto miracle natural world With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. 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. Banana Yoshimoto eye hurt views I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland. Banana Yoshimoto growing-up country moving Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable. Banana Yoshimoto choices sleep love-is Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth. Banana Yoshimoto standing-out awful goodness I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. Banana Yoshimoto flames crazy beautiful The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies. Banana Yoshimoto ritual daily-life body 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. Banana Yoshimoto ratios benefits world Hitoshi: I'll never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by, I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. I haven't a choice. I go. One caravan has stopped, another starts up. There are people I've yet to meet, others I'll never see again. People who are gone before you know it, people who are just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos, they seem to grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you. Banana Yoshimoto girl children moving In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses. Banana Yoshimoto ebb-and-flow uncertain emotion Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141). Banana Yoshimoto bed this-world world No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. Banana Yoshimoto alive matter want I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it. Banana Yoshimoto deep-breath taken should-have At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends. Banana Yoshimoto curves two hands Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water. Banana Yoshimoto nice loneliness water Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything. Banana Yoshimoto skins lonely home So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of regret even keener, that this time in my life would soon be a thing of the past. I felt as if I could understand a little of what my mother had been through, and the feelings she may have had at different times. I wasn't a child anymore, and this made me feel awfully lonesome, and utterly alone. Banana Yoshimoto regret mother fun You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me. Banana Yoshimoto frustrated feelings littles Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream. Banana Yoshimoto sea-breeze ocean dream People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time. Banana Yoshimoto talking long people
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