But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

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

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

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.