At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

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

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.

Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. 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. [Mameha]

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.