“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
― The Search
― The Search
“To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no longer have leaves, or bark, or roots, can you go on calling yourself a tree? "I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer." It was a frightening feeling to look at my hands and see their roughness. To draw my mind away from my fears, I turned my attention again to the truckloads of soldiers driving past. Weren't these the very American soldiers we'd been taught to hate, who had bombed our cities with such horrifying weapons? Now they rode through our neighborhood, throwing pieces of candy to the children.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.”
― Valley of Silence
― Valley of Silence
“ 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.' ”
― The Search
― The Search
“We make destiny with every turn, every choice.”
― Valley of Silence
― Valley of Silence
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