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

“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. ”

“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

“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 a new course.”

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”

“Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”

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

“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 a new course.”

“When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square and white.Timidly I licked it and discovered that it was sweet and delicious. I realiz...”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”