The Confessions of Lady Nijō Quotes

“The song of a warbler flitting through the plum blossom by the eave awoke me to the new spring, yet I found myself bewailing time's inexorable passing. Thoughts of the past turned my sorrowing heart back even as the turning year drew me forward, and as the old year fell away so too my tears fell on.”
― Lady Nijō, The Confessions of Lady Nijō