A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.
Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.