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

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

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

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

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.