"From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there.

What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent everyday watching for a man who would come for me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be to realize I never tasted the things I'd eaten or seen the places I'd been because I'd thought of nothing but the !hairman even while my life was drifting away from me. "nd yet if I drew my thoughts bac# from him what life would I have? I would be li#e a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give." $ from %emoirs of a &eisha by "rthur &olden "'he fishermen on the inlet began to soften as they disappeared within the curtain of rain and then they were gone completely. I could see the storm climbing the slope toward me. 'he first drops hit me li#e (uail eggs and in a matter of seconds I was as wet as if I'd fallen into the sea." $ from %emoirs of a &eisha by "rthur &olden "...)ow I #now that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs however we may suffer them all too soon they bleed into a wash *ust li#e watery in# on paper." $ from %emoirs of a &eisha by "rthur &olden +emember !hiyo geisha are not courtesans. "nd we are not wives. We sell our s#ills not our bodies. We create another secret world a place only of beauty. 'he very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be *udged as a moving wor# of art. %y world is as forbiddeb as it is fragile, without its myteries it cannot survive. "-how me the boo#s he loves and I shall #now the man far better than through mortal friends." $ .awn "dams "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." $ "lbus .umbledore in /arry 0otter and the -orcerer's -tone by 1.2. +owling "'he truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and should therefore be treated with great caution." $ "lbus .umbledore in /arry 0otter and the -orcerer's -tone by 1.2. +owling "I am what I am an' I'm not ashamed. ')ever be ashamed ' my ol' dad used ter say 'there's some who'll hold it against you but they're not worth botherin' with.' "n' he was right."

$ +ubius /agrid in /arry 0otter and the &oblet of Fire by 1.2. +owling I love that you get cold when it is 34 degrees out. I love that it ta#es you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crin#le in your nose when you're loo#ing at me li#e I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. "nd I love that you are the last person I want to tal# to before I go to sleep at night. "nd it's not because I'm lonely and it's not because it's )ew 5ear's 6ve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. 7When /arry met -ally