“I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.”

“I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.”

“I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.”

“I realized today that a daughter is born twice. For nine months, a mother carries and nourishes her daughter in her stomach, then gives birth to her. It's a happy occasion, but the mother is left feeling sadly empty inside...But I realized today that, after raising her within my love and embrace and sending her off in marriage, this day is just as sad and leaves me just as empty as the one when I first gave birth to”

“You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.”

“On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We'd be so blissfully happy we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves. Men are never happy unless they're trying to do the impossible. It's why they roam about the world trying to conquer it.”

“What does it matter if the world is bright and sunny, when it's dark and silent right where it matters most?”

“My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a blank expression- What an awkward woman am I. My heart has longed for him as hugely and openly as a full moonBut instead I narrow my eyes, and my glance to him Is sharp and narrow as the crescent moon. But then, I'm not the only one who behaves this way. My mother and my mother's mother were as silly and stumbling as I am when they were girls...Still, the love from my heart is overflowing, As bright and crimson as the heated metal in a blacksmith's forge.”

“A man who becomes enchanted by the flower's fragrance stays only for a fleeting moment, but a man who comes because of love stays for a lifetime.”

“People say that a dog can sense the longing of a person, so perhaps he's barking in response to your heart.”