All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Crowds Copy Share Image
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which… — Arthur Golden Anything 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
“Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.” — Arthur Golden Dreams Copy Share Image
“Water never waits. It changes shape and floes around things, and finds the secret paths no one else thought about __ the… — Arthur Golden Five elements 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
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
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched… — Arthur Golden Death 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
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside. — Arthur Golden Girl 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 Inpirational-quotes 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
“To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I… — Arthur Golden 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
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
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around… — Arthur Golden Bottom 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
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Fascinating Copy Share Image
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — Arthur Golden Anything 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
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through… — Arthur Golden Asking 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
“Isn’t there one thing I can ask of you that you won’t disregard?. . . . You could just reply, "Yes, Baron,"… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. — Arthur Golden Doubt Copy Share Image
