A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

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

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

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.