“All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge. — Arthur Golden Cat Copy Share Image
“You're eighteen years old, Sayuri," she went on. "Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny… — Arthur Golden Day to day Copy Share Image
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. — Arthur Golden Desperate Copy Share Image
Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested.… — Arthur Golden Bad day 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 sad Copy Share Image
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes… — Arthur Golden Geisha Copy Share Image
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind… — Arthur Golden Barren 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
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
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has… — Arthur Golden Evening Copy Share Image
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. — Arthur Golden Accustomed Copy Share Image
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really… — Arthur Golden Bird 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
