Autumn Lightning Quotes

“In the changing of the times,” Abe wrote to one of his students, “they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded on fields already bare.”
― Dave Lowry, Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai

“If wronged once, always forgive. Twice, forgive again, keeping in mind that even a repentant man can repeat a mistake. “ Only after two transgressions, Munenori advised, should punitive action be taken.”
― Dave Lowry, Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai