Izumi Shikibu Quotes

#1. The future is just wasted on some people.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.

Izumi Shikibu

#3. Come quickly
as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Izumi Shikibu

#4. Usually, as a fiction writer, you get e-mails saying, 'I liked your book,' or 'I didn't like it.' You don't get something saying, 'I'm really glad this is in the world.'

Darin Strauss

#5. For a moment
he became smoke.
How intimate,
now,
the cloudy sky.

Izumi Shikibu

#6. Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

Izumi Shikibu

#7. I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

Rachel Dratch

#8. Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.

Izumi Shikibu

#9. Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death

Izumi Shikibu

#10. Since we don't know where we're going, we have to stick together in case someone gets there.

Ken Kesey

#11. The one close to me now; even my own body
these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

Izumi Shikibu

#12. True friends are like stars that constantly shines ; they do these during the dark hours .

Osunsakin Adewale

#13. Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

Izumi Shikibu

#14. Rather than recall
in these flowers
the fragrance of the past,
I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,
to know if his song is as sweet.

Izumi Shikibu

#15. In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.

Izumi Shikibu

#16. If the one I waited for came now,
What should I do?
This morning's garden filled with snow
Is far too lovely
For footsteps to mar.

Izumi Shikibu

#17. In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

Izumi Shikibu

#18. Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!" Presumably he hadn't

Liane Moriarty

#19. The angrier the man, the more desperate his love.

Sally MacKenzie

#20. Oh,that's right. You're a ... what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them."
Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.

Jodi Picoult