"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, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a l..."
- Arthur Golden
"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."
"I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling ..."
"Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier."
"My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me."
"Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived."
"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 pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enou..."
"I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only ..."
"When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire."
"Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. "