“Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a… — Arthur Golden Lips Copy Share Image
“Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.” — Arthur Golden Fire Copy Share Image
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden Divorce Copy Share Image
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. — Arthur Golden Kindness Copy Share Image
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. — Arthur Golden Doubt 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
“Chairman: "Sometimes", he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.” — Arthur Golden 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
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches… — Arthur Golden Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life… — Arthur Golden Destiny 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
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
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read… — Arthur Golden Coffee Copy Share Image
“Every step I have taken in my life since I was a child in Gion, I have taken in the hope of… — Arthur Golden Children Copy Share Image
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
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating… — Arthur Golden 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 Businessman 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
“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
“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
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
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden Adversity 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
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden Geisha Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden History Copy Share Image
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that… — Arthur Golden Misery Copy Share Image
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — 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
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish. — Arthur Golden 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
“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
“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
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
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
