It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that… — Arthur Golden Misery Copy Share Image
“Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden History 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 Geisha Copy Share Image
“If you want to be successful, Sayuri, you must be sure that men’s feelings remain always under your control.” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. — Arthur Golden Future 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
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating… — 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 Bears Copy Share Image
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes… — Arthur Golden Geisha Copy Share Image
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be… — Arthur Golden Angry 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 Children 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
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Water never waits. It changes shape and floes around things, and finds the secret paths no one else thought about __ the… — Arthur Golden Elements Copy Share Image
“We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab,… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really… — Arthur Golden Bird Copy Share Image
“cards decorated with a colorful spray of plum blossoms in the background. Yasuda admired it for a moment before putting it into… — Arthur Golden Plum blossoms 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 Hope Copy Share Image
“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is… — Arthur Golden Bird Copy Share Image
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man… — 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 Childhood Copy Share Image
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden Grief 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 Life 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 Advantage Copy Share Image
“After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping… — Arthur Golden Mother Copy Share Image
“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer… — Arthur Golden Children Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you, but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden Dream Copy Share Image
“To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I… — Arthur Golden Soldiers Copy Share Image
