our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.
Cynthia R. Tanidihas quoted5 years ago
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist’s world.
Laura de Sotohas quoted6 years ago
It’s time you were; a geisha must be very careful about the image she presents to the world
b8055737834has quoted6 years ago
little drum we call tsutsumi,
b8055737834has quoted6 years ago
e “gei” of “geisha” means “arts,” so the word “geisha” really means “artisan” or “artist.
MartiG015has quoted3 months ago
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
Anielka Hohas quotedlast year
With all this water and all this wood, the two of them ought to have made a good balance and produced children with the proper arrangement of elements.
Bonbon Garzonhas quoted2 years ago
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
dellaVeritahas quoted2 years ago
Life will be miserable for the lucky ones. The rest won’t even live to see the end of the war.
Elinahas quoted3 years ago
the pace of change never slows, even when we’ve convinced ourselves it will.