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?

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

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

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

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

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle