Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.