I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

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

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.

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

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.