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.

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

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]

The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.