“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

“How do you want to be remembered?~As someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

“This was the place where someone had led her, only she could not remember who and could not remember when. Just that this was where she was now.”

“She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind of dream that you remember when you wake up smiling.”

“I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.”

“She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.”