I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as p...
Oh I'm sure you're right, Auntie said. Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And n...
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell thei...
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.
The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?
That droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It fell through empty space, with no control whatsoever over its destiny; rolled along a path...
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there...
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, he explained. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only wh...
When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.
[The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.