Estava a viver apenas metade em Gion, a outra metade de mim vivia nos meus sonhos de regressar a casa. É por isso que os sonhos podem ser coisas tão perigosas; continuam acesos mesmo sem chama, e às v...
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.
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha...
I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery i...
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.
I wasn’t thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he’d taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well,for something I’m not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that som...
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the streamI wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carr...
The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about -- the tiny hole thr...
He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see...
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?Nobu
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enou...
El cuarto de Hatsumono era el más grande de la okiya; ocupaba más espacio que toda mi casa de Yoroido. No
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.
[The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
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