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.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

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

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

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?