Banana Yoshimoto: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

“This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…”

“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.”

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

“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.”

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

“It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.”

“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.”

“If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.”

“Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).”

“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.”

“I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more…”

“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?”

“It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.”

“Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that”

“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.”