I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.
Banana YoshimotoLove is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
Banana YoshimotoYou know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
Banana YoshimotoIn the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
Banana YoshimotoLiving like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity
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