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_{MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA BOOK + MOVIE STARTERS}  

• _{“You cannot read loss, only feel it.”}
• _{”Am I really like her? Am I?”}
• _{”No! I’m the one who must be forgiven.”}

• “The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.” 

• _{“None of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.”}
• _{“He was like a song I’d heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”}
• _{”Where is my sister?”} 
• _{“Every now and then a man’s eel likes to visit a woman’s cave.”}
• _{“We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”}
• _{“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”}
• _{“I can’t have you touching my things.”}
• _{“I never meant to mislead you..”}
• _{“We must not expect happiness It is not something we deserve.”}
• _{“Sometimes, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.”}
• _{“I only smoke Chesterfields now.”}
• _{“Can’t you see that I want you for myself? You have ruined me! Before we met I was a disciplined man.”}
• _{“We do not display our naked feet like monkeys.”}
• _{“If you aren’t the woman I think you are, then this isn’t the world I thought it was.”}
• _{“You cannot read Loss, only feel it.”}
• _{”What better advice to follow than you own?”}
• _{”I have shamed myself so deeply, past all forgiveness.”}
• _{“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.”}
• _{”Sometimes the smartest remark is silence.”}
• _{”Suppose I wanted to see you in private.”}
• _{“I want a life that is mine!.”}
• _{“If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do?”}
• _{”She paints her face to hide her face.”}
• _”

  You are never to talk to her again. We are rivals now.”

• _{”A long time ago, you took something from me… the only thing I’d ever truly wanted… Well, now you know how is feels.”}
• _{”Stay out of my room. Your fingers smell. I can’t have you touching my things.”}
• _{”A pity. She still stinks of fish.”}
• ”

  I could be her. Were we so different?”

• _{”If there was a price, you could never afford it.”}
• _{”She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”}
• _{”It is too pretty a day to be so unhappy.”}
• _{”I am not worthless!”}  
• _“

  She loved once. She hoped once. I could be her. I might be looking into my own future.”

• _{”Three things matter in life: sumo, business, and war. Understand one, you know them all.”}
• _{“Please, do not be afraid to look at me.”}
• _{”We are tied to each other. I know you feel it too.”}

• _{“Hurry up! You’re not making money standing there gawking at yourself.”}
• _{“Stop crying, your face will run!”}
• _{”I do not like things held up before me that I cannot have…”}
• _{”How did you come by such surprising eyes?”}
• _{”We all stumble from time to time.”}
• _{”I shall destroy you!”}
• _{“I’m only having a look. Any man/woman/person would do the same.”}
• _{“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”}
• _{“A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile.”}
• _{”Waiting patiently doesn’t suit you.”}