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

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

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

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.