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“I’ve always been the kind of person who absolutely loves to tell jokes but can never tell them well. I’m always the only one giggling at the end.”
― Weihui Zhou, Marrying Buddha

“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse.

I will not come out of this with nothing.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“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, Asleep

“Could it actually be true that tears help people to heal?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“Soon it would be all over. All of this would wither away, it would all disappear. We'd go our separate ways. Again and again this conviction crashed over us.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Still


In the fall, I believe again in poetry
if nothing else it is
a movement of the mind.
Summers ball together
into sticky lumps,
spring evenings are glass beads from one mould
for standard-size youth,
winter a smooth heaviness, not even cold.
But the mind trembles
here, on the brink
the mind trembles
there is life, after all,
there is life, still
unbelief left.”
― Jaakko A. Ahokas

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Fear of loneliness is what teaches us to love,”
― Hui Wei, Shanghai Baby

“Death is the expression of exhaustion, a solution arrived at rationally once one has known the deepest depths of tiredness.”
― Hui Wei, Shanghai Baby

“Why would you want to bring more children into this world so that they can suffer and be stressed their entire lives? And they’ll disappoint you and you will want to die. And you’ll be poor”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“It's basic human nature, this need to look down on someone to feel better about yourself.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“I am glad then that I will never love someone again in this way. I would not survive a second time.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“For all its millions of people, Korea is the size of a fishbowl and someone is always looking down on someone else. That's just the way it is in this country, and the reason why people ask a series of rapid-fire questions the minute they meet you. Which neighborhood do you live in? Where did you go to school? Where do you work? Do you know so-and-so? They pinpoint where you are on the national scale of status, then spit you out in a heartbeat.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“the best art comes from an unbearable life—if you live through it, that is.”
― Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face

“There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistance with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.”
― Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour