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• This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.

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  Goodbye, Farewell, Sky

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.111, Grove Press

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• In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.

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  Prayer, Pain, Thinking

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.124, Grove Press

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• Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

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  Lonely, Raised

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press

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• Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

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  People, Ignorant, Way

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.50, Melville House

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• 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

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  Good Night, Insomnia, Long

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• Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

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  Beautiful, Crazy, Enough

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• This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

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  Mean, Want

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.20, Melville House

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• I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

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  Feelings, Important, Proud

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.183, Melville House

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• You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.

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  Nice, Light, Giving

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.32, Melville House

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• On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.

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  Stars, Heart, Night

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• The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).

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  Light, Broken, Kitchen

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.3, Grove Press

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• Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don’t change. They existed, and that’s all there is to it.

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  Sunset, Feeling Down, Feelings

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.181, Melville House

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• Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

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  Tea, Mind, Enough

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.88, Melville House

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• Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.

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  Nice, Heart, Self

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.39, Grove Press

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• Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are.

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  Fighting, Differences, Bridges

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.127, Melville House

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• 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.

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  Talking, Long, People

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.80, Grove Press

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• From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

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  Giving Up, Heart, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

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• Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

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  Mean, Fate, Missing

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• Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.

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  Feet, Suffering, Defeated

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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• it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

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  Eye, Night, Blue

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.64, Grove Press

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• It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

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  Ordinary Days, Long, Missing

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.31, Melville House

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• Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness

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  Eye, People, Forever

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.24, Grove Press

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• We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

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  Dream, Memories, School

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.117, Grove Press

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• In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.

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  Winter, Night, Ebb And Flow

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.75, Grove Press

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• Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

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  Lust, Hunger, Laughed

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

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