“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from… — Arthur Golden Barbs Copy Share Image
“We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of… — Arthur Golden Flower 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 Children Copy Share Image
“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… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an… — Arthur Golden Beautiful 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
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has… — Arthur Golden Apples Copy Share Image
Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“My tears simply broke through the fragile wall that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my… — Arthur Golden Fragile 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 is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely. — 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
“You might say Gion was like a pond high up on a mountaintop, fed by streams of rich springwater. More water poured… — Arthur Golden River 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
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
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
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
“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 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
“I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life… — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a… — Arthur Golden Agreement Copy Share Image
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read… — Arthur Golden Coffee 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
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches… — Arthur Golden Beautiful 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 Brilliant Copy Share Image
Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested.… — Arthur Golden Bad day Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Parenting Copy Share Image
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