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

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

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.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

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