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
“La belleza me sorprendió como una especie de dolorosa melancolía.” — Arthur Golden Amor 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 Want Successful 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 Bottom 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
“Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.” — Arthur Golden Fire Copy Share Image
“Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a… — Arthur Golden Lips 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
“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
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
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
“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 Auntie 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 Day to day 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
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 Deals Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside… — Arthur Golden Caves 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
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
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
“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
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden Earth 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 Fragments Copy Share Image
“Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.” — Arthur Golden Jealousy 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
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Inspirational Copy Share Image
“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.” — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden Cry Copy Share Image
“If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.” — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. — Arthur Golden Facts Copy Share Image
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. — Arthur Golden Blooms Copy Share Image
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef… — Arthur Golden Chef Copy Share Image
“Every step I have taken has been to bring myself closer to you.” — Arthur Golden Closer Copy Share Image
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. — Arthur Golden Course Copy Share Image
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else. — Arthur Golden Disgust Copy Share Image
“It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are” — Arthur Golden Feel Copy Share Image
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