In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course...
I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died a...
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchang...
Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.
Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room...
Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you...Or perhaps life has been cruel.I don't know sir I said, Though of...
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...
And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause a change in the air so that a fly ends up where it might never have gone otherw...
Ich so sehr eine Konkurrenz für Dich, wie eine Pfütze als Meer gilt
The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves of the roof dripped rain like beads of weighted glass. Even the mat...
Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.