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“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“...Will, I used to come here in my Oxford and sit on this exact same bench whenever I wanted to be alone, just me and Pan. What I thought was that if you - maybe just once a year - if we could come here at the same time, just for an hour or something, then we could pretend we were close again-because we would be close, if you sat here and I sat just here in my world -"
"Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Whenever I am in the world, I'll come back here -”
― The Amber Spyglass
"Yes," he said, "as long as I live, I'll come back. Whenever I am in the world, I'll come back here -”
― The Amber Spyglass
“You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
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