Banana Yoshimoto Quotes About Rejected
-
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.
→ -
We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.
→
Related Authors
-
Junichiro Tanizaki Author -
Yukio Mishima Author -
Osamu Dazai Author -
Yasunari Kawabata Writer -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Yoko Ogawa Writer -
Natsuo Kirino Novelist -
Soseki Natsume Novelist -
Edith Wharton Novelist -
Keigo Higashino Author -
Ruth Reichl Writer -
Bram Stoker Novelist -
Shusaku Endo Author -
Jack London Author -
Haruki Murakami Writer -
Miyuki Miyabe Author -
Kobo Abe Writer -
Kenzaburo Oe Author -
Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist -
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Writer