Even stone can be worn down with enough rain..

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it..

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat..

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 k….

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain..

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you..

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

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not..

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..

Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them..

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will..

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

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined..

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

I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I c….

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

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold,….

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the p….

We can never flee the misery that is within us..

From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent ….