If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be… — Arthur Golden Angry 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
“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is… — Arthur Golden Birth 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
“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep,… — Arthur Golden Darkness 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 Life Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Biographies Copy Share Image
of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will. — Arthur Golden Change 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
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a… — Arthur Golden Agreement Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he’d taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking… — Arthur Golden Hope Copy Share Image
“We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab,… — Arthur Golden Memoirs-of-a-geisha Copy Share Image
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. — Arthur Golden Inspirational 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
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant… — Arthur Golden Brilliant Copy Share Image
“... agora sei que o nosso mundo não e mais permanente do que uma onda a erguer-se no oceano. E quaisquer que… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. — Arthur Golden Pain 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
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
“Tuga je vrlo neobičan osjećaj, tako smo bespomoćni kad se s njome suočimo. To je nešto poput prozora koji se otvara po… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. — Arthur Golden Geisha Copy Share Image
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. — Arthur Golden Excitement Copy Share Image
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden Choices Copy Share Image
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open… — Arthur Golden Accord Copy Share Image
