"A certain thought was swelling in my head, growing until I couldn't ignore it any longer. I wanted to turn away from it; but I was powerless to stop that thought from taking over my mind as the wind is to stop itself from blowing."
"If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain."
"Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of."
"We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find new course."
"This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely."
"I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us."
|What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I thought of nothing but the chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give."
PS1: Memoirs of a Geisha is a must-read.
PS2: Thanks to Maryam for lending me her copy, <3
1 comment:
I read this a few years ago and thought it was an interesting read. I did intend at some point to read a book that was out at around the same time that was written by the geisha this was based on, or someone she knew, but now I have forgotten what that book was.
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russel of DFW Spine & Joint Center
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