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“After all, only women are able really to love.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness

“Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“Women are odd,” he said, to extricate himself. “Two or three of them have told me they’re sure I modeled one of my characters on them. And they were complete strangers, women I’d had nothing to do with. What kind of delusion could that be?” “Lots of women are unhappy, so they console themselves with delusions.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness