Sadness was a very heavy thing.
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound
I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.
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...
I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods.
I'd done nothing but worry that every turn of life's wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had always made life so vividly real...
Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing co...
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle into my path; and of course, it was the worrying and the struggle that had a...
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confiança que ele tem em si próprio. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não se pode concentrar no curso em dire...
[The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
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...
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...
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