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

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

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.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.