Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
[The eyes] are the most expressive part of a woman's body.
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 had never imagined such a thin...
We can never flee the misery that is within us.
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
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...
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would hav...
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn'...
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together...
Another motive as well—namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft tone, as one might expect of a woman who has ma...
Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
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.
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...
When I was in the street throwing a beanbag with the other children and Mr. Tanaka happened to stroll out of the seafood company, I always stopped what I was doing to watch him.I lay there on that sli...
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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