Quote by Masaji Ishikawa

“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“IN THOSE DAYS, your village might change hands every few weeks, one day to the Communists, the next to the Nationalists, the next to…

— Madeleine Thien

“I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic…

— Loretta Chase

“A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their…

— Julie Otsuka

“it was decorated with Japanese fans and Chinese lanterns, which gave it a very Old English effect.”

— Saki

“I'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what we were…

— Walter Isaacson

“The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...”

— Jung Chang

“I could soon see outlines of people in the water in the distance, all of them covered in oil. I had no way to…

— Alistair Urquhart

“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was always the meaningless tasks that endure: the washing, the cooing, the clearing, the cleaning. Never anything majestic or significant, just the tiny…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman,”

— Pearl S. Buck

“The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door…

— Sheila Kohler