What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
Banana YoshimotoAs I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.
Banana YoshimotoIn the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of oneโs life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a cafรฉ one winter night.
Banana YoshimotoUltimately, 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.
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