I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty… — Arthur Golden Cruelty 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
“Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle… — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like… — Arthur Golden Casual 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
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
“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
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides… — Arthur Golden American 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
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
“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
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing.… — Arthur Golden Body Copy Share Image
“Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a… — Arthur Golden Isn Cold Copy Share Image
“But, Mameha-san, I don’t want kindness!” “Don’t you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want… — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a… — Arthur Golden Blew Copy Share Image
“And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who… — Arthur Golden Children Copy Share Image
“I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon… — Arthur Golden Dance Copy Share Image
“Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been… — Arthur Golden Afraid 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of… — Arthur Golden Believe Copy Share Image
“The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in… — Arthur Golden Idea Said Copy Share Image
My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head… — Arthur Golden Broke Copy Share Image
“All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest… — Arthur Golden Hard work 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
“Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink… — Arthur Golden Sayuri Copy Share Image
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as… — Arthur Golden Feeling Copy Share Image
