Banana Yoshimoto Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.

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  Dream, Fear, Believe

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.8, Grove Press

• 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

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  Eye, People, Forever

  Banana Yoshimoto (2006). “Hardboiled: & Hard Luck”, p.24, Grove Press

• 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

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  Eye, Night, Blue

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.64, Grove Press

• Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Eye, Ice Cream, Hands

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.110, Grove Press

• 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.

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  Hurt, Eye, Views

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

• 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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