250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

Time your actions so you’re not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

The corridor couldn’t have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I’d always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness – a world in which fathers didn’t sell their daughters.

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

Everyone knows that a wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

I don’t like things held up before me that I cannot have.

We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn’t think I’d missed much. I could see the thatched roofs of the town around an inlet, amid dull hills, and beyond them the metal-colored sea, broken with shards of white. Inland, the landscape might have been attractive but for the train tracks running across it like a scar. – Chapter 2, pg 20.

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn’t heal?