„Her Highness had not wanted to leave her mother, who had therefore had a light partition put up between them. She would not allow her...

Kapitel „The Flute“

„Perhaps the inadmissible occurred only because destiny required him to be borne, he mused, in which case little could have been done to avoid it....

„It is bad enough when a woman one never much liked, a passing amusement, turns out to be involved with somebody else, and one then...

„‚This is out of the question, I tell you. (…) What I feel for you is extraordinary.'“

„(…) no doubt especially because Genji had given up his wanton fancies.“

Kapitel „Spring Shoots I“

Kapitel „The Singers“

„What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done.“