Eunice Helera > Eunice's Quotes

“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 didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“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 Yoshimoto, Asleep

“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved...”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“No, I just wanted to recapture the incredibly vivid love we'd had at first- the love I'd shared with the tall man standing next to me, with the man I adored.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“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

“Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you'll have collected a whole lot of this 'dirt of life' stuff, right, you won't know where it's coming from but it'll pile up, and clothes and pearls won't look as beautiful to you as they do now -- that's for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can't ever settle down in one place, you've got to live like you're always, always staring way off into the distance.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“When the surface of your soul begins to stir, I imagine you want to capture the sensation in writing.” - Yoko Ogawa”
― Yōko Ogawa

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to be a precondition for this kind of sport. If pain weren't involved, who in the world would ever go to the trouble of taking part in sports like the triathlon or the marathon, which demand such an investment of time and energy? It's precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome that pain, that we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive--or at least a partial sense of it. Your quality of experience is based not on standards such as time or ranking, but on finally awakening to an awareness of the fluidity within action itself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Maraming mundo ang bawat tao. Gagawin mo iyon kung wala kang makapa. Dadagdagan mo kung kulang, hahanapin kapag nawawala. Kung matagpuan na, pilit iyong tatakasan ng mga duwag at wawaratin naman ng mga matatapang para makagawa ng iba.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Isang beses lang tayo makapipili ng daan at pagkatapos noon, paulit-ulit na tayo sa daan na iyon- paikot-ikot, habang kinukumbinsi natin ang sarili na umuusad naman talaga tayo, na nagpapatuloy tayo, na mayroon tayong pinatutunguhan- kahit wala nga, wala naman talaga, paikot-ikot lang tayo sa iisang daan na noon, noong hindi natin alam, noong wala tayong kamalay-malay, ay nagpasya na pala tayo’t pinili nga ito.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Lahat, may hinahanap. Pero iba ang natatagpuan nila sa huli. Pero masaya pa rin sila. Lagi pa rin silang masaya.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Babalik ako sa panahong di mo inaasahan para kunin sa iyo ang noon ko pa gustong malaman.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon

“Baka ako naman talaga ang nawala, ako, si Tito Tony, si Lola Bining, kaming mga naiwan, baka kami naman talaga ang nawala. Kailangan bang iyong laging umalis ang nawala, nawawala? Baka nga mas natagpuan nila ang sarili sa paglayo.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“The problem with memory is it favors only the most intense moments. The happiest. Or the saddest. Which means that memory can't be really trusted in the case of the familiar, the ordinary.”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog

“Nalunod tayo / kahapon sa salita / at kapuwa alaalang
lulutang-lutang / na lamang / ngayon. / Walang naisalba
ang panahon. (p. 47)”
― Edgar Calabia Samar, Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambúhay

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
― Albert Camus