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• 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

  Hurt, Eye, Views

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Kitchen”, p.139, Grove Press

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• 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

  Sleep, Love Is, Choices

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.82, Grove Press

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• I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.

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  Tired, Voice, Long

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.4, Grove Press

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• I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

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  Thinking, Energy, Culture

  Banana Yoshimoto, Ann Sherif (1996). “Lizard”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?

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  Mean, Adults, Ugly

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.56, Grove Press

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• For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

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  Years, People, Perfect

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.32, Grove Press

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• 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.

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  Mother, Fun, Regret

  Banana Yoshimoto (1995). “N.P.: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Girl, Children, Moving

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.150, Grove Press

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• I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

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  Taken, Should Have, Deep Breath

  Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. Wasden (1998). “Amrita”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Hands, Two

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• 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

  Feelings, Frustrated, Littles

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.18, Melville House

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Home, Skins

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• 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.

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  Dream, Ocean, Sea Breeze

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.104, Grove Press

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