“I moved deeper into the comforting gloom, along a stone walkway covered in cherry blossoms that lay like tenebrous snow in the… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This… — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“But you’re out of another world old kid … You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
“Skylar laughed a lot in these scenes. He was happy. He was always helping people too—a whole section depicted him playing hero… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I wish?” Skylar held Xander’s hand tight as he looked up at the falling leaves. “I wish we… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an… — Alice Poon Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease,… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
“Dutifully, the Count put the spoon in his mouth. In an instant, there was the familiar sweetness of fresh honey—sunlit, golden, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The blossoms seem unusually lovely this year. There were none of the scarlet-and-white-striped curtains that are set up among the blossoming trees… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring. — Ariwara no Narihira Copy Share Image
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches. — Cathy Davidson Copy Share Image
[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The shoes were of white leather and fur, with impractical heels that would add half a foot to my height, but unlike… — Heather Fawcett Copy Share Image
“Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Blood fountained in an arterial spray that wet her face, turned the cherry blossoms black, but she was already shoving the blade… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the… — Fujiwara no Teika Copy Share Image