“Chikako could see Nobue's flowers reflected in Kaori's eyes. They looked like stars. Like love itself.”
“Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.”
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”
“At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the stars.”
“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,But by reflection, by some other things.”
“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”