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Top 25 Emily Itami Quotes (2025 Update)

Emily Itami Quote: “My children. My life’s work, my greatest loves, orchestrators of total psychological trauma and everyday destruction.”

1. “My children. My life’s work, my greatest loves, orchestrators of total psychological trauma and everyday destruction.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “I’m in a cage without bars and I’m screaming but nobody can hear. I’m not even middle-aged yet and he’s faded me into the background.”

2. “I’m in a cage without bars and I’m screaming but nobody can hear. I’m not even middle-aged yet and he’s faded me into the background.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “I love beautiful things, beautiful people, the magnetism of someone you can’t take your eyes off of.”

3. “I love beautiful things, beautiful people, the magnetism of someone you can’t take your eyes off of.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Having a secret makes me feel like nobody owns me.”

4. “Having a secret makes me feel like nobody owns me.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Brunch is definitely my favorite meal of the day; its optimism and energy, the wholesome anticipation of the sunny day ahead. It feels like a cheerful resolution, weekly fuel for a new beginning.”

5. “Brunch is definitely my favorite meal of the day; its optimism and energy, the wholesome anticipation of the sunny day ahead. It feels like a cheerful resolution, weekly fuel for a new beginning.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Parenting is savage – there is no other activity on earth that you could get up to do four times a night for two years straight, and at the end of it be merely in the running for mediocre.”

6. “Parenting is savage – there is no other activity on earth that you could get up to do four times a night for two years straight, and at the end of it be merely in the running for mediocre.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “On occasion, my whole life can feel like a pileup of unintended consequences.”

7. “On occasion, my whole life can feel like a pileup of unintended consequences.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “What are we, apart from the stories we tell ourselves and other people?”

8. “What are we, apart from the stories we tell ourselves and other people?”

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Emily Itami Quote: “In that insane maternal way, I loved him so much, so quickly, that I didn’t know what to do. It was immediately, blindingly, obvious that there was nowhere near enough time in all my life and in all the world to give both him and his sister everything they needed and that I wanted to give them. The whole task was far beyond anything I was capable of, and the only possible outcome was failure of the most heartbreaking kind.”

9. “In that insane maternal way, I loved him so much, so quickly, that I didn’t know what to do. It was immediately, blindingly, obvious that there was nowhere near enough time in all my life and in all the world to give both him and his sister everything they needed and that I wanted to give them. The whole task was far beyond anything I was capable of, and the only possible outcome was failure of the most heartbreaking kind.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “A protagonist in my life, and I wasn’t it.”

10. “A protagonist in my life, and I wasn’t it.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “I wonder what will still matter when I’m as old as she is. I wonder who she loved, and what she hid, and when it stopped hurting her to remember, even while she was pretending to have forgotten.”

11. “I wonder what will still matter when I’m as old as she is. I wonder who she loved, and what she hid, and when it stopped hurting her to remember, even while she was pretending to have forgotten.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “He manages to make it sound sarcastic without inflecting it at all, so it’d be impossible to prove in a court of law.”

12. “He manages to make it sound sarcastic without inflecting it at all, so it’d be impossible to prove in a court of law.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Tokyo, if it doesn’t provide an answer to my angst, at least has the effect of making me forget the question.”

13. “Tokyo, if it doesn’t provide an answer to my angst, at least has the effect of making me forget the question.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “I look nearly the same as I do now, just happier. What an unforgivable thing to say, when my life now is the way it is. Maybe not happier exactly, just as if my edges haven’t been so finely polished. Less demure, less taut. Freer.”

14. “I look nearly the same as I do now, just happier. What an unforgivable thing to say, when my life now is the way it is. Maybe not happier exactly, just as if my edges haven’t been so finely polished. Less demure, less taut. Freer.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Perhaps my failure to fight for the music means I’ve forfeited the right to say I miss it, to claim that I ever loved it or that I wish things had turned out differently. But I do still feel all those things. I guess it was a divorce like any other.”

15. “Perhaps my failure to fight for the music means I’ve forfeited the right to say I miss it, to claim that I ever loved it or that I wish things had turned out differently. But I do still feel all those things. I guess it was a divorce like any other.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “There are thirty-seven million of us in Tokyo alone-it has the effect of making it damn clear just how unimportant you are. Which is heartbreaking or relaxing, depending on how you look at it.”

16. “There are thirty-seven million of us in Tokyo alone-it has the effect of making it damn clear just how unimportant you are. Which is heartbreaking or relaxing, depending on how you look at it.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “It’s hard to remember who you are, without people who know you that way.”

17. “It’s hard to remember who you are, without people who know you that way.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Sometimes it felt like the part of me that my mother knew disappeared when she did. Because there wasn’t anyone else who saw it, it just faded away.”

18. “Sometimes it felt like the part of me that my mother knew disappeared when she did. Because there wasn’t anyone else who saw it, it just faded away.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Sometimes when he looks at me, I wonder if he can see where I’ve been, if he knows what I’ve felt. It makes me wonder what I don’t know about him, too, and the thought makes me feel, oddly, closer to him; it reminds me of us at the beginning, when we chose what to reveal and had the courtesy of shielding each other from things that were unpalatable, of being our best selves for the other, instead of knowing too much.”

19. “Sometimes when he looks at me, I wonder if he can see where I’ve been, if he knows what I’ve felt. It makes me wonder what I don’t know about him, too, and the thought makes me feel, oddly, closer to him; it reminds me of us at the beginning, when we chose what to reveal and had the courtesy of shielding each other from things that were unpalatable, of being our best selves for the other, instead of knowing too much.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “If I’d had a career, I could change jobs, apply for a promotion, do something. If I’d stayed in New York, I could have had it all, couldn’t I? But I am a Japanese Housewife, a proper, old-school job for life, and you only get to choose your colleague once.”

20. “If I’d had a career, I could change jobs, apply for a promotion, do something. If I’d stayed in New York, I could have had it all, couldn’t I? But I am a Japanese Housewife, a proper, old-school job for life, and you only get to choose your colleague once.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Cassie and her friends paid not the slightest attention to mistakes I made, in language or social niceties, and like the child of benignly neglectful parents, it didn’t take long for me to grow in confidence.”

21. “Cassie and her friends paid not the slightest attention to mistakes I made, in language or social niceties, and like the child of benignly neglectful parents, it didn’t take long for me to grow in confidence.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “After all the years I’ve spent with him not seeing me, I don’t see him anymore either. We exist like two blind fish, sliding past each other cordially in our parallel universes.”

22. “After all the years I’ve spent with him not seeing me, I don’t see him anymore either. We exist like two blind fish, sliding past each other cordially in our parallel universes.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “He rolls over again, still smiling. It’s the most disturbed I’ve felt in months.”

23. “He rolls over again, still smiling. It’s the most disturbed I’ve felt in months.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “But I, unfortunately, have never been one for acting logically. I’d say my true decision-making process mirrors that of an insane dog following his balls. I just happen to be fortunate enough to be sufficiently Japanese that the need to maintain appearances puts a tidy veneer on my animal instincts.”

24. “But I, unfortunately, have never been one for acting logically. I’d say my true decision-making process mirrors that of an insane dog following his balls. I just happen to be fortunate enough to be sufficiently Japanese that the need to maintain appearances puts a tidy veneer on my animal instincts.”

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Emily Itami Quote: “Is it normal to fluctuate so quickly between feeling tender toward your husband and fervently wishing him a violent death?”

25. “Is it normal to fluctuate so quickly between feeling tender toward your husband and fervently wishing him a violent death?”

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