This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

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.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.