"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."
- Arthur Golden
"At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it."
"Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all."
"I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him."
"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 cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died a..."
"I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you ca..."
"When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom."
"Once when I was a little child of six or so, I watched a spider spinning its web in a corner of the house. Before the spider had even finished its job, a mosquito flew right into the web and was trapp..."
"After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom."
"Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away."