Loreley Cataldi

“Happiness descends on you suddenly, regardless of circumstance, and so indifferently that it seems cruel. It doesn't care where you are, or who you're with.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories

“I lost the things that had given me shape, and as they disappeared, I felt like I was dissolving into thin air.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“Her sobs slipped softly through the darkness and sank down into me, into my very being, the way the endless rains do in the monsoon season.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“For some reason my nights tended to stretch out to suprising lengths, like rubber, and they were endlessly sweet. And my mornings were unforgivingly sharp. The light seemed to stab at me with some sort of pointy object. It was hard and translucent and stubborn. It was wretched.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep