He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden Fragments 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
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Fighting 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 Culture 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
“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or… — Arthur Golden Destiny 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
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read… — Arthur Golden Evening 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
“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
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to… — Arthur Golden Choice 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 Future Copy Share Image
“I don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a… — Arthur Golden Life 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
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Beauty 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 Done 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 Details 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 Ink 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 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
