Hardboiled & Hard Luck
Banana Yoshimoto
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with. ”
“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.”
“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”
“The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.”
“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.”
“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to recapture that feeling—life wasn’t so easy anymore. Small things pricked my heart. In those early days, I lived in a world of overwhelming sensations; it was like I had just fallen out of love.”
“Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.”
“Because the sky is high and lonely, and it makes me feel very alone, and that makes my heart dance, and then I feel stronger. But at the same time, there’s this energy in the air; it’s a time of waiting, before winter really sets in.”
“I’ll wait until then—I won't forget you. I don’t want things to end like this, only having known you during this strange time. But right now, I just can’t think about the future.”
“People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with—that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn't really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it.”
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Book Keywords:
insightful, winter, melancholy, loss, autumn, waiting, love, future, loneliness, aloneness, reflection, empowerment, sadness, sky, timing, breakups, hurt, solitude
