At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing.… — 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
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in… — 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
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 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
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. — 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 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
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden 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 girl, and… — Arthur Golden 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 direction, so… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
