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

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.

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

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

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

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.