And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.
I've lived my life again just telling it to you.
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.