This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
The very idea! he said, with another big laugh. You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!
Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.
Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten-namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the...
I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of a shop, I felt I was someone to be taken seriously; not a girl anymore, but a young woman.
Chairman: Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping in panic. Perhaps it was my heart, I don't know. But if you've ever seen a bird trapped...
Could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, whe...