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
And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in… — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
“I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon… — Arthur Golden Dance 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 Copy Share Image
“And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who… — Arthur Golden Children 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
“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Is this how you act toward your honored guest? You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing.… — Arthur Golden Body Copy Share Image
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from… — Arthur Golden Barbs Copy Share Image
“We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of… — Arthur Golden Flower Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we… — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty… — Arthur Golden Anxiety Copy Share Image
“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Beauty 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 Copy Share Image
I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone… — Arthur Golden Facts Copy Share Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that… — Arthur Golden Action Copy Share Image
“When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was… — Arthur Golden Emotion 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 Copy Share Image
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the… — Arthur Golden Flow Copy Share Image
“Since the day I’d left Yoroido, I’d done nothing but worry that every turn of life’s wheel would bring yet another obstacle… — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty… — Arthur Golden Cruelty 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
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both… — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
“There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
