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

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.

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

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.