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"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."

"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course."

"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 kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell thei..."

"Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it"

"Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears."

"I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as p..."

"I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And n..."

"When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square and white.Timidly I licked it and discovered that it was sweet and delicious. I realize n..."

"I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder"

"When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?"