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“Funny, but what made me feel most nostalgic was the yellow-green color of the floor, . . . When I lived there I had hated that color, but now that I was to leave it I loved it with all my heart.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one's life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated--defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“I worship her, Alexey, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she tortures me, tortures me with her love. The past was nothing! In the past it was only those infernal curves of hers that tortured me, but now I've taken all her soul into my soul and through her I've become a man myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov