## Metadata - Author: [[Banana Yoshimoto]] - Full Title: The Lake - Category: #books ## Highlights - The flowerlike side wasn’t easy to recognize, and my mom, always eager to please, tried hard to cultivate the feisty, easygoing side of her personality. Watering it, rather than the flower, with lots of love, fertilizing it with people’s approval. ([Location 37](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004C43G06&location=37)) - If you’re always angry, always yelling at people, ultimately that just means you depend on them.” ([Location 149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004C43G06&location=149)) - The intensity of a person unafraid of death, at the end of his rope. ([Location 274](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004C43G06&location=274)) - When someone tells you something big, it’s like you’re taking money from them, and there’s no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening. ([Location 452](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004C43G06&location=452)) - if you try to hold people back too much when they’re dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha, ([Location 747](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004C43G06&location=747))