“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Every step I have taken in my life since I was a child in Gion, I have taken in the hope of… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr.Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he’d taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“You're eighteen years old, Sayuri," she went on. "Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden Copy Share
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden Copy Share
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you, but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction, so… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden Copy Share
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so… — Arthur Golden Copy Share
