We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden Choice Copy Share Image
“Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.” — Arthur Golden Future 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
“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
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the… — 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it.” — Arthur Golden Grief 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
“Isn’t there one thing I can ask of you that you won’t disregard?. . . . You could just reply, "Yes, Baron,"… — 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A… — 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
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 Cruelty 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 Evening 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
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the… — Arthur Golden Flow 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
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — 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 Geisha 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
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. — Arthur Golden Life 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge. — Arthur Golden Cat Copy Share Image
of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will. — Arthur Golden Change Copy Share Image
“Chairman: "Sometimes", he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden Divorce Copy Share Image
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. — Arthur Golden Kindness Copy Share Image
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. — Arthur Golden Doubt 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 Life Copy Share Image
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which… — 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
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that… — Arthur Golden Action Copy Share Image
“When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was… — Arthur Golden Emotion Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone… — Arthur Golden Facts Copy Share Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we… — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty… — Arthur Golden Anxiety Copy Share Image
