The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if itโs a kitchen, if itโs a place where they make food, itโs fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)โ (p. 3).
Banana YoshimotoThere are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you canโt bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.
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