“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.” — Arthur Golden Disappointment Copy Share Image
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden Friend Copy Share Image
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening. — Arthur Golden 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 Copy Share Image
“When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.” — Arthur Golden Life lessons Copy Share Image
“But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.” — Arthur Golden River Copy Share Image
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. — Arthur Golden 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 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 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 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 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
“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 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
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
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
I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man… — Arthur Golden 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
“cards decorated with a colorful spray of plum blossoms in the background. Yasuda admired it for a moment before putting it into… — Arthur Golden Plum blossoms 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
“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is… — Arthur Golden Bird 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 Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden Future Copy Share Image
“Whatever any of us may have thought about Hatsumomo, she was like an empress in our okiya since she earned the income… — Arthur Golden Hot tea Copy Share Image
“Now she took a close look at me for the first time, puffing on her pipe while the old woman beside her… — Arthur Golden 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 don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a… — Arthur Golden Life 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 Copy Share Image
“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or… — Arthur Golden Destiny 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 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
