Arthur Golden Quotes - Page 2

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be