A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
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 Image
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs,… — 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
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty… — 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
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is… — 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
