My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

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

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

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 never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.