The Premonition Quotes

“it was a little like living in Moomin Valley, where the sun never sets. Days that were endless, but which you could only take one at a time, with no sense of what was coming tomorrow . . . I still can’t shake it. It lives inside me like a curse or a blessing.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“A sudden rustling in your chest. A premonition of understanding. You feel you might be on the verge of uncovering something . . . You’re a little fearful, oddly excited, and somehow forlorn . . . Like there’s something coming around the next corner that’s going to turn everything you know about yourself on its head.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“I guess you need to have a home before you can run away from it, I thought, and I felt it in my heart.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“It’s nice how the same person always comes back. So you don’t feel lonely.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide as the sun went down, ending up far, far away from where I started.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“When people see too many of something, it just makes them feel sad. No one knows why.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“I never knew until I lived there that sound could sometimes become visible to the eye. But no—the sight somehow felt more familiar. The elegant melody awakened a sweet feeling in me, as if I’d once spent long days just like that, watching sounds, somewhere in the distant past.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“Che creatura triste, l'essere umano, pensai. Non c'è nessuno che riesca a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Presagio triste

“The more beautiful a night away from home was, the more regretful it made you feel”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“What had possessed them to visit the gates of the underworld on a family vacation?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“He seemed to be a stranger to ambivalence, or in-between expressions, and was almost uncannily polite.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“I imagined my aunt saying goodbye to people in the same categorical way, and started to feel a little despondent.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful music as it flowed from her room upstairs, threaded through the trees in the garden, and slipped away into the gray sky.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“He met challenges head-on, fearlessly, and had a natural strength and positivity that stopped him from letting his doubts turn into problems for other people.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“I nostri destini si erano separati, e ognuno di noi era diventata grande seguendo la sua strada.
Ormai tornare indietro era impossibile.
I miei erano semplici rimpianti, che valevano meno di zero, un inutile spreco si per lei che per me, perciò cercai di ricacciarli via.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Presagio triste

“Non c'è nessuno che riesce a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Presagio triste

“Nessuno degli amori che avevo avuto fino ad allora aveva mai cancellato in questo modo il paesaggio.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Presagio triste

“Forse era solo il breve sogno di un'altra me stessa che non aveva più nessuna possibilità di vivere in questo mondo.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Presagio triste