It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening. — Arthur Golden Closing Copy Share Image
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden Friend Copy Share Image
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. — Arthur Golden Real Copy Share Image
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish. — Arthur Golden Corridors Copy Share Image
“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
“But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.” — Arthur Golden River Copy Share Image
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. — Arthur Golden Afternoon Copy Share Image
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. — Arthur Golden Accustomed 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
“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
“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 Chapter-10 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 Toga 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 Fabric 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 Thing Ask 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
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing… — Arthur Golden Age Copy Share Image
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed… — Arthur Golden Angry 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 changes… — Arthur Golden Five elements Copy Share Image
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd… — Arthur Golden Childhood Copy Share Image
“You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half… — Arthur Golden Happiness 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 Businessman Copy Share Image
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is… — Arthur Golden Artist Copy Share Image
“that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It… — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is… — Arthur Golden Bird Copy Share Image
“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer… — Arthur Golden Children Copy Share Image
“After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping… — Arthur Golden Mother Copy Share Image
“To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I… — Arthur Golden Soldiers 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
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden Grief Copy Share Image
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the… — Arthur Golden Advantage Copy Share Image
“It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every… — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of… — Arthur Golden Childhood Copy Share Image
