Quotes Tagged With :geisha

I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different....

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash....

When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something....

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had....

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world....

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very....

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes....