I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. — Arthur Golden Excitement Copy Share Image
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. — Arthur Golden Death Copy Share Image
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. — Arthur Golden Doctors 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
“Some times 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
Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them. — Arthur Golden Action Copy Share Image
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs,… — Arthur Golden 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
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear… — Arthur Golden Bears 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
“Isn’t there one thing I can ask of you that you won’t disregard?. . . . You could just reply, "Yes, Baron,"… — Arthur Golden 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
“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 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
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together... — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. — Arthur Golden Desperate Copy Share Image
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of. — Arthur Golden Differences Copy Share Image
“It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else. — Arthur Golden Disgust Copy Share Image
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef… — Arthur Golden Chef Copy Share Image
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. — Arthur Golden 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
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside. — Arthur Golden Girl 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 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
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides… — Arthur Golden 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
