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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “It struck me that family, work, friendships, engagements – all of these were like spiderwebs placed to protect people from the more distressing colors that lurked within themselves. The more safety nets you had under you, the less far you had to fall, and if you were lucky you might live your entire life without even noticing what was below.”

201. “It struck me that family, work, friendships, engagements – all of these were like spiderwebs placed to protect people from the more distressing colors that lurked within themselves. The more safety nets you had under you, the less far you had to fall, and if you were lucky you might live your entire life without even noticing what was below.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I wondered whether I was crying because I was sad, or because I had just been released from my sadness.”

202. “I wondered whether I was crying because I was sad, or because I had just been released from my sadness.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Sounds great,” I agreed. I would go out with Akira and forget, for a brief while, the sorrow that clings to life. I would pretend for a moment that my sadness might someday disappear.”

203. “Sounds great,” I agreed. I would go out with Akira and forget, for a brief while, the sorrow that clings to life. I would pretend for a moment that my sadness might someday disappear.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “For one thing, I was breathing more easily than I had been even yesterday. I was sick to death at the prospect of more suffocatingly lonely nights. The idea that they would be repeated, that was just how life was, made me shudder with horror. Still, having tasted for myself that moment when I suddenly could breathe easy again made my heart beat faster.”

204. “For one thing, I was breathing more easily than I had been even yesterday. I was sick to death at the prospect of more suffocatingly lonely nights. The idea that they would be repeated, that was just how life was, made me shudder with horror. Still, having tasted for myself that moment when I suddenly could breathe easy again made my heart beat faster.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”

205. “Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I started out thinking I’d just have to look the part to get by, and before I knew it the poison had seeped in and changed me inside.”

206. “I started out thinking I’d just have to look the part to get by, and before I knew it the poison had seeped in and changed me inside.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Of that day in which everything was just too beautiful in the transparent winter air, what I remember most is the sight, when I turned back to look, of Hitoshi’s black jacket melting into the darkness.”

207. “Of that day in which everything was just too beautiful in the transparent winter air, what I remember most is the sight, when I turned back to look, of Hitoshi’s black jacket melting into the darkness.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Rituals are more important than we think. Not for the dead, but I think it’s the best way to help ourselves accept what happened, and draw a line under it.”

208. “Rituals are more important than we think. Not for the dead, but I think it’s the best way to help ourselves accept what happened, and draw a line under it.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.”

209. “What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “I thought about the complications of what I’d been dealing lately. And then I understood that actually it wasn’t just the relationship- I had so much baggage from my chilhood, from before I was born into this world too. I understood that for the first time that night. And I knew it would always be that way, until we die. Even after we’re dead.”

210. “I thought about the complications of what I’d been dealing lately. And then I understood that actually it wasn’t just the relationship- I had so much baggage from my chilhood, from before I was born into this world too. I understood that for the first time that night. And I knew it would always be that way, until we die. Even after we’re dead.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up.”

211. “There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up.”

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Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “If someone had asked me how I’d spent this period in my life, I’d have said I’d done nothing in particular. It had all felt like a dream. But I drew confidence and satisfaction from the fact that I had in fact achieved things, that there had been a through line. Even when I’d felt suffocated and short of breath with nowhere to go, I’d done what I could, and it had all linked up and moved forward, and before I knew it I was coming up for breath somewhere where I was no longer weighed down.”

212. “If someone had asked me how I’d spent this period in my life, I’d have said I’d done nothing in particular. It had all felt like a dream. But I drew confidence and satisfaction from the fact that I had in fact achieved things, that there had been a through line. Even when I’d felt suffocated and short of breath with nowhere to go, I’d done what I could, and it had all linked up and moved forward, and before I knew it I was coming up for breath somewhere where I was no longer weighed down.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto Quote: “Shintani-kun often brought a book to read while he waited, but he’d close it as soon as his food arrived. I liked that too. As well as the way he always said Itadaki-masu, quietly, before he started eating. Maybe I was already in love.”

213. “Shintani-kun often brought a book to read while he waited, but he’d close it as soon as his food arrived. I liked that too. As well as the way he always said Itadaki-masu, quietly, before he started eating. Maybe I was already in love.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

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