Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

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.

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?

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.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.