#yoshimoto banana

[evilkitten3]

This is the only thing I've bought today lol

#yoshimoto banana #banana yoshimoto #kitchen #I've been meaning to get this for a while now actually

[straycalico]

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

Art by Okumura Koichi

#Japanese literature #books & libraries #books #quotes #literature #banana yoshimoto #yoshimoto banana

[quotation--marks]

It occurred to me that the pigeons and the pickpockets, the immigrant beside me, the tourists, we were all just HERE. You could tell, looking at them ambling around the plaza in their white scarves, that those mothers no longer thought their children might come home. Maybe this was their way of expressing the constant, unending frustration they carried in their hearts, of giving form to the time they had lived through, of refusing to let what had happened get lost in the oblivion of simply being here, like this, right now. Cradling pictures of their daughters and sons, the old women chatted among themselves. That made me feel the reality of it all the more. That’s how it goes, I thought. This is time passing. This is the colour of sorrow.

Yoshimoto Banana, Bee Honey (trans. Michael Emmerich)

#bee honey #yoshimoto banana #2000 #2000s #21st century #japanese literature #queue pierce my soul

[nyannyannihon]

My favourite book

#yoshimoto banana #banana yoshimoto #shirakawa yofune #白河夜船 #books

[quotespile]

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

#literature #quotes #Banana Yoshimoto #The Lake #quote #books #lit

[lostlibrarycard]

— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

#banana yoshimoto #kitchen

[metamorphesque]

touch as a love language

Margaret Atwood, Christophe Vacher, William Stafford, Alphonse Osbert, Shauna Barbosa, Sherrie McGraw, Natalie Diaz, Mark English, John Keats, Megan Howland, Marya Hornbacher, Ron Hicks, Sanober Khan, Ron Hicks, Banana Yoshimoto, Ron Hicks, Ocean Vuong, Anne Magill, Mary Oliver

buy me a coffee

#web weavings #art #art parallels #paralells #touch as a love language #quotes #literature #poetry #poems #love and longing come hand in hand #ocean vuong #mary oliver #sanober khan #john keats #margaret atwood #banana yoshimoto #shauna barbosa #anne magill #classic literature #translated literature #william stafford #natalie diaz #ron hicks #dark academia #romantic academia #light academia

[seasidetownlibrary]

kitchen by yoshimoto banana

“tempat yang paling kusukai di dunia ini adalah dapur.”

ya, dapur adalah tempat yang membuat mikage merasa nyaman setelah menjadi sebatang kara sebanyak dua kali. entah bagaimana, tidur di dekat lemari pendingin membuat mikage terlelap. sulit rasanya membaca kitchen setelah membaca norwegian wood; keduanya berisi kematian orang-orang terdekat karakter utama.

kukira kitchen akan berisi tentang bagaimana hidupnya berlanjut di dapur, di antara rempah-rempah dan bak cuci piring. memang seperti itu, tapi tidak banyak. banana menceritakan keseimbangan unik antara kehidupan dan kematian. semua tokoh dalam novel ini mengalami pergulatan batin setelah ditinggalkan orang-orang yang mereka cintai; orang tua, nenek dan kakek, kekasih.....

hitoshi

aku tidak bisa lagi berada di sini. detik demi detik aku melangkah maju. karena arus waktu yang tidak bisa dibendung, tak ada pilihan lain. aku akan pergi.

sebuah perjalanan karavan berakhir, lalu perjalanan berikutnya akan dimulai. ada orang yang bisa kujumpai. ada juga orang yang takkan bisa kutemui lagi. orang yang pergi entah kapan, ada juga orang yang hanya berpapasan. rasanya sambil saling menyapa, aku akan semakin merasa ringan. sambil menatap sungai yang mengalir, aku harus hidup.

aku berharap dari lubuk hatiku, semoga sosok kekanak-kanakanku itulah yang senantiasa menemanimu.

terima kasih sudah melambaikan tangan kepadaku. terima kasih, sudah berkali-kali, berulang-ulang melambaikan tangan untukku.

#kitchen #yoshimoto banana #seasidetownbooks

[jazbaaati]

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

#banana yoshimoto

[nobeerreviews]

"It’ll be this kind of deep blue" she said. "The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words - the color of a completely closed-in night."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#night #blue night #color blue #banana yoshimoto #night photography #switzerland #travel photography #quote #moonlight #moon

[thoughtkick]

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 can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

#Banana Yoshimoto #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[perfectquote]

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 can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

#Banana Yoshimoto #motivation #quotes #poetry #literature #relationship quotes #writing #original #words #love #relationship #thoughts #lit #prose #spilled ink #inspiring quotes #life quotes #quoteoftheday #love quotes #poem #aesthetic

[propertiesofjoy]

amrita, banana yoshimoto

#so good !!!!!! #banana yoshimoto #amrita #j #words

[mostlyghostie]

New fiction! These are the 12 monthly picks from this year of the Belletrist website, I was commissioned by a book group who had been reading along with them!

I’ve only read a couple of these as I usually wait for paperbacks, but I liked both The Premonition and The Guest.

Shop / Instagram

#my art #artists on tumblr #books #booklr #illustration #bookstack #literary fiction #belletrist #emma cline #banana yoshimoto #angie kim #melissa broder

[quotespile]

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

#literature #quotes #Banana Yoshimoto #Goodbye Tsugumi #quote #books #lit

[quotemadness]

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 can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.

Banana Yoshimoto

#Banana Yoshimoto #quotes #quote #lit #literature