I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with the many scary things that were going to start happening from now on. I wanted to try.
Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep
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— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
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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
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"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
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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
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Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
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amrita, banana yoshimoto
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Pink pink pink
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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.
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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
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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
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It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.
Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
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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
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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
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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
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