#nana

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#beauty

But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#manga #moon #nana #change

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me… but in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen.. If I could keep today’s happiness… I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.  ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#seventeen #change

I’m thinking of changing my name to “Son of Manana.” Of course it isn’t accurate, because I’m the father of yesterday.
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— Jarod Kintz

#accurate #father #manana #name #thinking

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like: What is this place, where am I heading? And what’s the deal with all the ruddy bananas? ↗

— Tom Conrad

#chance #conception #fate #ghosts #midnight-merlot

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#nana #reality #dreams

Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why... ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#happy #nana #dreams

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#nana #dreams

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#dreams

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#funny-and-random #house #family