The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.

And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent.