“We sat there in our flower crowns until the world went dark, until we were half-sick from sugar but still laughing, laughing, laughing like the almost-invincible girls we were. Happy”
― The Start of Me and You
― The Start of Me and You
“Stay or go. I leave it to you. But you are welcome always. In all ways.”
― Flame in the Mist
― Flame in the Mist
“In this age of decadence that we live in, people's minds are twisted and only words are loved but not preactial deeds.”
― Flame in the Mist
― Flame in the Mist
“Never mind that it was not what she wanted. Never mind that there was so much left to see and learn and do. She’d been raised for a purpose. A foolish one at that - to be the wife of an important man when she could easily have been something else. Something more.”
― Flame in the Mist
― Flame in the Mist
“She remembered Chiyo telling her that finding one's match was like finding one's other half. Mariko had never understood the notion.
She was not a half. She was wholly her own.”
― Flame in the Mist
She was not a half. She was wholly her own.”
― Flame in the Mist
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