“When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.” — Arthur Golden Life lessons Copy Share Image
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside. — Arthur Golden Girl Copy Share Image
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. — Arthur Golden Facts Copy Share Image
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else. — Arthur Golden Disgust Copy Share Image
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable.… — arthur golden Books Copy Share Image
“Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“another motive as well—namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with… — Arthur Golden Expressiveness 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 Flowing 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
“Tuga je vrlo neobičan osjećaj, tako smo bespomoćni kad se s njome suočimo. To je nešto poput prozora koji se otvara po… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled… — Arthur Golden Battle Copy Share Image
“... agora sei que o nosso mundo não e mais permanente do que uma onda a erguer-se no oceano. E quaisquer que… — Arthur Golden Amor 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
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
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something… — Arthur Golden Flowing Copy Share Image
“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It… — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open… — 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 Children 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 Life Copy Share Image
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef… — Arthur Golden Chef Copy Share Image
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together... — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. — Arthur Golden Desperate Copy Share Image
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of. — Arthur Golden Differences Copy Share Image
“It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden Earth Copy Share Image
“Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a… — Arthur Golden Lips Copy Share Image
“Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.” — Arthur Golden Fire 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 Image
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.” — Arthur Golden Jealousy Copy Share Image
“If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.” — Arthur Golden Destiny 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 Cry Copy Share Image
“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.” — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Inspirational Copy Share Image
“La belleza me sorprendió como una especie de dolorosa melancolía.” — Arthur Golden Amor Copy Share Image
