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“Ultimately, 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. ”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“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”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Tutti di solito sono convinti che le persone si separano perché una si è stancata dell'altra, per propria volontà o per volontà dell'altra persona. Ma non è così. I periodi finiscono, come cambiano le stagioni”
― Banana Yoshimoto, H/H

“Actually, time had always been passing. I had just managed to avoid thinking about it very much. It would be hard for me to recapture that feeling—life wasn’t so easy anymore. Small things pricked my heart. In those early days, I lived in a world of overwhelming sensations; it was like I had just fallen out of love.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Because the sky is high and lonely, and it makes me feel very alone, and that makes my heart dance, and then I feel stronger. But at the same time, there’s this energy in the air; it’s a time of waiting, before winter really sets in.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“And it’s true, I thought, interesting things do happen, even in the midst of the blackest nights. And when you take a spill, you can always rise up from it with something good in your hand.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“I’ll wait until then—I won't forget you. I don’t want things to end like this, only having known you during this strange time. But right now, I just can’t think about the future.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Mi piacciono le persone che mi fanno pensare spesso [...].”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Diceva: quando ami qualcuno soffri, ti struggi, è un sentimento che non puoi in alcun modo soffocare...”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“People tend to think they break up because they get tired of the person they've been with—that it's someone's decision, either yours or theirs. But this isn't really true. Periods in our lives end the way seasons change. That's all there is to it.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“...Sì, pensai, forse come nella canzone, questo autunno non tornerà mai più, per l'eternità, e questa notte, passando attraverso i rami secchi e nudi degli alberi, si allontanerà scomparendo nella distanza. E poi di nuovo, sconosciuto e implacabile, verrà l'inverno.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Il cuore di ognuno di noi stava cercando di accompagnare in modo tranquillo la vita di mia sorella che se ne andava. O meglio, si stava avvicinando a malincuore in quella direzione. Procedeva con sicurezza su quella strada, tranquillamente, come quando l'autunno avanza cedendo il passo all'inverno.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either...some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Was war das denn bei Ihnen für ein Gefühl? Als Sie mit jemandem in so einer Situation waren, wo Sie sich gegenseitig verletzt haben, dass die Fetzen flogen?" fragte sie, wobei sie die Augen auf meine richtete, aber ihre Welt war so randvoll mit sich selbst, dass sich nichts mehr darin spiegeln konnte.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Did anyone ever imagine, back in the old days, that eventually a day would come when people and their brains would each die a separate death?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Because the sky is high and lonely, and it makes me feel very alone, and that makes my heart dance, and then I feel stronger. But at the same time, there's this energy in the air; it's a time of waiting, before winter really sets in.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Her life was like a pale shadow of life, given form by innumerable layers of anguish.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Septemberâ€� by Earth Wind & Fire and YÅ«min’s ‘Autumn Travels.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“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 very 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.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“...the loss of one ordinary worker is enough to send emotions rippling through the entire staff of a company. And the traces of that emotion would never disappear.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Tu e io non abbiamo mica la fortuna contro, no? Siamo solo inghiottiti da questa atmosfera, non credi? Adesso è impossibile. Ma è solo adesso, che è impossibile, vero?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Ogni notte ha in serbo molte sorprese, e io cerco di non uscirne mai sconfitta, qualsiasi cosa accada [...]”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Penso che tu abbia la fortuna dalla tua parte. Questo ti porterà ad avere una vita molto strana. Ti succederanno tante cose. Però non devi mai biasimare te stessa né avere paura, devi vivere hard-boiled. Qualunque cosa accada, affronta tutto con spavalderia.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Tutti di solito sono convinti che le persone si separano perché una si è stancata dell'altra, per propria volontà o per volontà dell'altra persona. Ma non è così. I periodi finiscono, come cambiano le stagioni. Semplicemente. È una cosa su cui la volontà individuale non ha nessun potere. Viceversa, si ha la possibilità, fino a quando verrà quel giorno, di godere ogni momento.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“La guardai fissa. E in quel momento capii che in realtà non c'era mai stata una volta in cui i miei pensieri l'avessero raggiunta. Lei era sempre stata immersa profondamente dentro di sé, proprio come adesso, e non aveva la minima intenzione di rendere partecipe qualcun altro del suo modo di essere. Io potevo al massimo vederlo. Proprio per questo mi piaceva guardarla. Chizuru era una creatura che sembrava fatta della stessa fragile sostanza della vita, creata da innumerevoli strati di sofferenza.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck

“Il tempo si allunga e si contrae. Quando si allunga, come una gomma ci imprigiona all'infinito nelle sue braccia. Non lascia liberi così facilmente. Ci troviamo risospinti nel luogo dove eravamo prima, o abbandonati nel buio, dove non si sposta neanche di un secondo, ignorando i nostri sensi tesi e gli occhi serrati.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled & Hard Luck