Quotes About Shikibu

i wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

And among the leaves were white flowers with petals half-unfolded like the lips of people smiling at their own thoughts.

Her shock and dismay at his forward behaviour gave her an allure he found irresistibly attractive.

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.

Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away