Eunice Helera

“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

“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

“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

“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