There 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.
Banana YoshimotoThis is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
Banana YoshimotoWhy 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.
Banana YoshimotoI felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
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