For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

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.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

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.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.